Basically, one of three things:
- reflection back into space
- Heating of the ground, water and atmosphere
- Absorption by plants to drive photosynthesis
Once the sun's energy reaches earth, it is intercepted first by the atmosphere. A small part of the sun's energy is directly absorbed, particularly by certain gases such as ozone and water vapor. Some of the sun's energy is reflected back to space by clouds and the earth's surface.
Basically, one of three things:
- reflection back into space
- Heating of the ground, water and atmosphere
- Absorption by plants to drive photosynthesis
clouds, angle of instance, materials that absorb the suns energy, pollution, and objects
The light at the equator hits the earth perpendicular to the surface to the earth. The further you are from the equator, the light comes in at an angle closer and closer to parallel. The closer to parallel the light comes in at, the more of it is reflected, so it receives less energy than the perpendicular light at the equator.
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the distance away from the equator (further away = less of the suns energy), and also the amount of cloud and type of cloud in that location (more cloud reflects more of the suns energy away from that location).
Mostly anything. Plants, humans, and animals are just a few of the examples.
All living things.
it goes into the inner core.
The suns energy when it reaches the earth's atmosphere encounters earth's plasma and three things happens. Some of the energy is reflected , some is absorbed and the rest is transmitted to the earth.
A solar collector, solar panel
A solar collector, solar panel
The pie graph gets warm when the sunlight hits it.
Some is absorbed by the earths air water and soil. The remainder is reflected.
it does reach the earth in light energy.
radiant
As the sun's rays heat up the earth, the radiation hits the atmosphere. Then the radiation heads back to the sun.
yes because study says that neptune realeses 2.7 of the suns energy it absorbs
The tropics