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
for history please visit http://www.dbksolar.com/ It gives the history, i found it interesting myself.
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.
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.
it goes into the inner core.
All living things.
The temperature of the house increases as the sun's radiant energy touches it. This is because the house absorbs the energy from the sun, converting it into heat.
A solar collector, solar panel
Some is absorbed by the earths air water and soil. The remainder is reflected.
it does reach the earth in light energy.
As the sun's rays heat up the earth, the radiation hits the atmosphere. Then the radiation heads back to the sun.
A solar panel is a device that absorbs the Sun's radiant energy and converts it into electricity through a photoelectric effect.
yes because study says that neptune realeses 2.7 of the suns energy it absorbs
At the poles.
The tropics
It feeds the plants which gos in the food cycle and gos to the animal's then to us people and food chain!