SCIENCE
EARTH SCIENCE
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Question
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Trapping heat energy
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Reflecting and filtering light from the sun
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Allows precipitation
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Increases the amount rays from the sun
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Earth absorbs most of the energy reaching its surface, a small fraction is reflected. In total approximately 70% of incoming radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface while around 30% is reflected back to space and does not heat the surface.
Detailed explanation-2: -As sunlight passes through the atmosphere, some of it is absorbed, scattered, and reflected by: Air molecules. Water vapor. Clouds.
Detailed explanation-3: -Solar radiation includes visible light, ultraviolet light, infrared, radio waves, X-rays, and gamma rays. Radiation is one way to transfer heat. To “radiate” means to send out or spread from a central location.
Detailed explanation-4: -Solar input. The total solar influx, depending on distance from the sun, angle of the planet’s axis and solar activity. Albedo-or reflections of solar rays from the Earth and back into space. Chemical composition of the atmosphere.