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Is the earth's atmosphere heated directly by a planet or a star?
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Earth is heated by the sun, which is a star.
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Most of the solar energy reaching planet Earth and its atmosphere is absorbed by what?
earths surface
Is mercury earth's sister or brother planet?
Mercury is earths brother planet because Venus is earths sister planet.
How did volcanoes affect the early earths atmosphere?
Early volcanoes discharged different combinations of gases into the Earth's atmosphere creating rain, which cooled the planet and formed solid land masses, and every other element discovered presently.
What is known as the earths sister planet?
Venus is known as Earth's sister planet.
How do you distinguish between the biosphere and atmosphere?
Atmosphere is the gaseous envelope that surrounds a planet and is held in place by gravity. Biosphere is the zone on and around a planet that sustains life.
How is Eath's surface heated?
The earths surface is one of the few planets in our solar system with an atmosphere. Sun penetrates our atmosphere and is trapped in the ozone layer creating a green house effect that heats the planet.
What types of gases are in dwarf planet X's atmosphere?
APPERANTLY it has an atmosphere similar to Earths, with flecks of gold. It is like a very gold kinda coated planet... ^_^
Is earths atmosphere in space?
Yes. It is in space just like the whole planet Earth.
Most of the solar energy reaching planet Earth and its atmosphere is absorbed by what?
earths surface
What do you call the body of air which surrounds our planet?
The pocket of air that surrounds the earth is called the earths Atmosphere
What planet has a nitrogen- oxygen atmosphere?
Earths atmosphere is rich in Oxygen, some 21% of the air is Oxygen. There is oxygen on other planets, but the percentage comes nowhere close to this. The percentage of Oxygen in earths atmosphere is thought to have been much higher in the past, before animals were about, but after the arrival of plants.
Why is the atmosphere needed on a planet?
Atmospheres have many different purposes, however the Earths atmosphere is vital to its existense as it prevents the suns harmful radiation from reaching the Earths surface. Moreover, from an enviromental standpoint the errosion by pollutants will eventually destroy the delicate atmosphere and the Earths protective barrier will be gone.
Interactions of the geosphere atmosphere and hydrosphere support planet earths living things which make up the?
Biosphere.
This planet has an atmosphere that rains sulfuric acid?
venus is the only planet in our solar system that has sulfuric acid because it is earths ugly step sister
Is the earths lithosphere the rigid outer shell of the planet?
The atmosphere is an outer layer of gas on a terrestrial planet. A hole in the ground caused by a meteor hitting a planet is a crater.
Is Mars made of gases?
Mars is an inner terrestrial rocky planet. Though there is an atmosphere is is very thin compare to the earths.
How did earths atsmophere change during the precambrian time?
It changed from a reducing atmosphere containing no free oxygen to an atmosphere containing oxygen. The evolution of life on Earth "terraformed" the planet.
