Questions and Answers
The atmosphere acts like an insulating blanket or a ______, keeping in the perfect amount of the sun's heat energy
greenhouse
As the sun's heat energy comes down towards the earth in the form of short wavelength radiation it passes through the atmosphere and hits the ______ of the earth
surface
Most of the sun's heat energy that reaches the surface of the earth is either re-emitted or reflected back into the atmosphere towards ______ in the form of longer wavelength radiation
space
What is the role of the atmosphere in regulating the earth's temperature?
Signup and view all the answers
What happens to the sun's heat energy when it reaches the surface of the earth?
Signup and view all the answers
What happens to the majority of the sun's heat energy that reaches the surface of the earth?
Signup and view all the answers
