Chapter 16 Lesson 1 Energy in Earth’s Atmosphere

Question: What kinds of energy do we receive from the sun? Chapter 16 Lesson 1 ? Energy in Earth's Atmosphere

How Earth's Atmosphere Gets Energy

Sun gives off energy.

Energy travels to Earth as electromagnetic radiation.

______ Visible Light

a) It is a mixture of all of the colors of the rainbow.

______ Infrared Radiation ______ Ultraviolet Radiation

b) It has wavelengths that are shorter than those of violet light. c) It has wavelengths that are longer than those of red light.

1. What causes the different colors of visible light? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

2. How do we detect visible light? ______________________________________________________________________

3. How do we detect infrared radiation? ______________________________________________________________________

4. What happens to energy from the sun that is neither reflected nor absorbed by the atmosphere?

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5. What reflects energy from the sun in the atmosphere? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

6. Reflection of light in all directions is called _____________________.

7. Energy that is absorbed by the land and water is changed into _________________.

8. What absorbs most of the energy that is radiated from Earth's surface? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

9. The process by which gases hold heat in the air is called that _____________________.

10. How might conditions on Earth be different without the greenhouse effect? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

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