Karteikarten
solar
Karten in diesem Stapel (20)
- 1Solar Heating of the EarthHamza Ahmed Year 8
- 2What is solar energy?Energy that comes from the sun
- 3What is the sun powered by?Nuclear Fusion
- 4What is nuclear fusion?Nuclear reaction in which two or more nuclei come close enough to form at extremes to produce energy
- 5How much energy is produced by the sun?378 billion billion watts
- 6Not all the energy reaches earth but how much does?1400 w/m
- 7Define electromagnetic radiationEnergy that enters the earth's atmosphere
- 8Define electromagnetic spectrumA range of different forms of light and other energy carrying waves
- 9What is the ozone layer?Layer in atmosphere absorbing ultraviolet radiation
- 10What do greenhouse gases do?Absorb lower energy waves
- 11What is the greenhouse effect?The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere,
- 12What is the enhanced greenhouse effect?Impact on the climate from the additional heat retained
- 13What happens to all of the energy on earth?Eventually becomes heat energy?
- 14Which colour most reflects heat?White, this is why you wear sunglasses when skiing because the light is too much.
- 15Which colour most absorbs heat?Black, that's why black surfaces are hotter than light surfaces on hot days
- 16What does this lead to?Different amounts of heating around the earth
- 17What is climate change?Change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns
- 18What is IPCC?The business responsible for monitoring climate change
- 19What are the causes of climate change?Solar activity and greenhouse gas emissions
- 20ThankYou
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