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The energy is retained until the lack of sunlight when it is released and allows life to continue.
Ozone absorbs about 16% of all incoming energy from the sun (99% of all UV-C). This prevents these damaging rays from hitting life on the planet and causing issues like cancer.
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From were does the earth get solar energy?
The Earth gets its solar energy from the sun. We are the perfect distance away to harvest this resource.
What is the transfer of energy from the sun to earths surface?
Because of the heat and light
What best explains why the ice age lasted for hundreds of years?
Solar radiation was reflected by the ice
Which part of earth receives the greatest total amount of solar radiation when earth is in position?
South
Are x-rays the most powerful solar radiation?
No, that would be gamma rays. They have the most energy in the electromagnetic spectrum. Gamma rays are what cause radiation sickness and death when people are exposed to them for even a short time.
What happens to most solar radiation when it reaches the surface of Earth what happens?
Most of the solar radiation is absorbed when it reaches the surface of the earth. Some of the solar radiation is also absorbed in the atmosphere.
What happens to the amount of solar radiation as latitude increases?
The north pole receives more solar radiation during the summer than the equator does, but during winter, it receives no solar radiation. This means that as latitude increases, the amount of solar radiation increases in the summer and decreases in the winter.
The light from the sun is called?
Heat from the sun is called Solar Radiation, so the answer is SOLAR RADIATION
What happens to incoming solar radiation after it is reflected off the surface of the earth?
The wavelength is longer. Energy is re-radiated by the Earth as infrared radiation (heat).
Intercepted solar radiation is called?
Insolation is intercepted solar radiation.
What happens to solar radiation from the moment it leaves the sun until it reaches the surface?
It find its way to earth
Only about 50 percent of the solar energy directed toward earth penetrates directly to the surface. What happens to the rest of the radiation?
some of the radiation is absorbed in the atmosphere
What happens to your face in space?
It depends what you are exposed to: Radiation can cause caner and imune diases, Microgravity causes bone loss, solar flares cause radiation
Another word for Incoming Solar Radiation?
incoming solar radiation = insolation
When is solar radiation most intense?
Solar radiation is most intense at noon.
What happens to solar radiation from the moment it leaves the sun until it reaches earths surface?
It find its way to earth
What happens to the ice when a comet passes close enough to the sun to be heated by solar system radiation?
When a comet passes close enough to the sun to be heated by solar system radiation, the ice will be heated up and given off as gas
