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Another name for heat radiation?
INFRARED RADIATION is also referred to as Heat Radiation.
What radiation warms the earths surface and the heat energy is radiated back into space?
Infrared radiation from the sun warms the Earth's surface. This heat energy is then radiated back into space as longwave infrared radiation. This process is known as the greenhouse effect.
What are the five sources of background radiation?
The five sources of background radiation are cosmic radiation from outer space, terrestrial radiation from the Earth's crust and building materials, radon gas from soil and rocks, internal radiation from within our bodies, and medical sources like X-rays.
What kind of lines does infrared radiation travel in?
The kinds of lines the energy emitted from the sun can travel in. This energy penetrates into the earths crust, getting to our earth's core, up through the inner core of the earth, deep down to the core of the sun and down to the surface of the earth. The colors in the earth are blues, violets, greens, browns, and white. The energy is called the Ultraviolet radiation because it comes in this colored form. This is a form of light in the blue and violet, white, and other colours of the spectrum. The temperature it receives from is less than 100 Kelvin, which is what American Yellow Dawsonite says the temperature of the earth's core is. While infrared energy isn't all there is in the sun's radiation, it's still way more than UV rays. Ultraviolet rays are extremely powerful, a billion times stronger than the Earth's current atmosphere. Because of this, the ultraviolet rays are emitted from objects which contain such high amounts of the material. The most common substance which can be found in the earths crust is iron. The iron from the sun's rays can travel, but it does not exist as a part of the earth's crust. It takes the heat energy that the UV rays give off and converts it into energy, which is contained in iron.
What emits radiant energy toward earths surface?
The Sun is the primary source of radiant energy that emits electromagnetic radiation toward Earth's surface, including visible light, infrared radiation, and ultraviolet radiation. This energy is essential for sustaining life on Earth through processes like photosynthesis and heating the planet.
When earths surface is heated it radiates most of the energy back into the atmosphere as ultraviolet radiation?
Not as ultraviolet; the radiation is emitted as infrared radiation.
The primary wavelengths of radiation emitted by earths surface are what?
The primary wavelengths of radiation emitted by Earth's surface are in the thermal infrared range between 8 and 14 micrometers. This radiation is also known as longwave radiation and is a key component of Earth's energy balance.
The primary wavelenght of radiation emitted by earths surface are?
The primary wavelength of radiation emitted by Earth's surface is in the thermal infrared range, typically around 10 micrometers (μm). This is known as long-wave radiation, which the Earth emits as heat energy.
Is the earths radiation shortwave or longwave?
Earth's radiation is primarily longwave. Shortwave radiation from the sun enters the Earth's atmosphere, where some is absorbed and re-radiated as longwave radiation. This longwave radiation is what is emitted back out into space.
What is infrared radiation-?
Infrared radiation is when earths surface radiates some of earths surface back into the atmosphereinfrared radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation, which involves waves rather than particles. This means that unlike conduction and convection radiation can even pass through the vacuum of space.infrared radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation which is emitted in the form of heat. infrared radiation is invisible
What are particles that move quickly away from the sun's surface?
Photon energy is emitted from the sun in the form of light. Also Alpha and Beta Radiation particles, these are nuclear in nature and do not reach past earths upper atmosphere.
Earths primary external energy source is what?
The Sun is Earth's primary external energy source. Solar radiation emitted by the Sun provides heat and light energy to sustain life on Earth through a process called photosynthesis.
Why does earths atmosphere absorb radiation?
It absorbs radiation to protect it. It protects from UV rays.
What type of radiation is trapped on the earths surface by the green house effect?
Infrared radiation
How does most of the heat in the earths atmosphere move from place to place?
Convectionheat moves by, radiation(:
Why are carbon dioxide water vapor and other greenhouse gases important to life on Earths surface?
They absorb radiant energy emitted by Earths surface
What heats earths atmosphere?
The sun heats the atmosphere. Solar radiation largely passes through the atmosphere and warms the surface of the earth. The earth then radiates heat up into the lower levels of the atmosphere where greenhouse gases warm. The warmed greenhouse gases then continue to radiate heat in all directions warming the atmosphere and again the earth's surface.
