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The Sun Powers Earth's Climate System
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The Sun Powers Earth's Climate System
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16 Questions

1. Define Heat Sink

2. Define ultraviolet radiation

3. What does a specific heat capacity involve?

4. Define specific heat capacity

5. How does the sun's energy travel to earth?

6. What can the Earth's climate be defined as?

7. Define thermal energy

8. What does the sun's energy support?

9. Radiation from the sun has three part what are they?

10. How much of the sun's energy is absorbed by the earth's surface?

11. Define infrared radiation

12. What does the sun's energy provide on earth?

13. When radiation contacts a particle of matter what happens?

14. How much of the sun's energy is reflected back to space?

15. How is the sun's energy used on earth?

16. What are these types of radiation apart of?