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Why is an energy pyramid wide at the bottom and narrow at the top?
The organisms at the top of the pyramid receive only a small fraction of the energy that originally enters the system.
What is 99 percent of solid earth made up of?
About 99% of the solid Earth is made up of a small fraction of all the known elements.The solid Earth's most abundant elements include oxygen, silicon, iron, aluminum, and calcium.
Is earths atmosphere mostly oxygen and hydrogen?
No, Earth's atmosphere is mostly composed of nitrogen (about 78%) and oxygen (about 21%). Hydrogen makes up a very small fraction of Earth's atmosphere, less than 0.1%.
Solar radiation warms the surface of the planet and then is radiated back in the form of?
Electro-magnetic Radiant Energy, that can be referred to as the electromagnetic radiation in all the the EM bands. As well, the Solar wind contains physical particles that bombard - in a streaming function - the Surface of the Earth and produce the Aurora Borealis.
A small strip of water that reaches from a sea or lake into the shore land?
A inlet. Your Welcome. :-]
What percentage of the energy radiated by the sun reaches earthes surface?
Of the Sun's energy reaching Earth's atmosphere, just under 60% reaches the Earth's surface. Only a small fraction of the Sun's energy reaches Earth, of course. In fact it's only about 0.000000045 percent. So, the answer to the question is: about 0.000000025 percent.
What happens to the small amount of sun's energy when it reaches the earth?
Nothing really it gets darker
Why only a small amount of the light energy from the sun that reaches the earth is used during photosynthesis?
i have no answer
Why do only small amounts of energy actually reach the earth's surface?
beacuase part of it reaches the earth the rest is reflected back ;)
Explain whether all renewable energy sources have their origin in engery from the sun?
Only a small fraction of the sun's energy reaches the Earth. However, this energy is enough to power the wind, plant growth, and the water cycle. So nearly all renewable energy comes directly or indirectly from the sun.
What are the steps the suns energy goes thourgh the reach earth?
In order to get to Earth (through a vacuum) it must be converted into radiation. Note that some energy reaches Earth as the "solar wind - mostly charged particles. This is a very small percentage.
Why doesnt all of the suns energy make it to the earth?
-- Almost all of it misses the Earth, because the Earth is such a small target. -- A substantial amount of the tiny fraction that does score a direct hit on the Earth is absorbed by the atmosphere.
Do the planets affect the Earth in any way?
It is estimated that about 13 pounds of material from Mars lands on the Earth each year. That happens when meteorites hit Mars and knock material up into the sky. A very small proportion escapes from Mars's gravity and goes into orbit round the Sun. A very small proportion reaches the Earth. A very small proportion of that reaches the ground.
What percentage of the energy radiated by the sun reaches the Earth's surface would it be two-fiftieths two-thousandths two-millionths or two-billionths?
Two billionths. It might seem really small, but coming from the sun, it is a lot!
How does my consumption of energy affect te earth?
As an individual, immeasurably small.
What is a space object called if it reaches the Earth's surface?
Small objects that orbit the Sun are called meteoroids. If the enter the atmosphere, they are meteors, and if one reaches the surface it is a meteorite. (also a geology term)
Does most of the Sun's energy make it to the Earth's surface?
No, the Sun is a spherical star and it radiates it energy in all directions from all of its surface, this amounts to 384.6 yotta watts (3.846×1026 W)per second.The earth is VERY small and quite a long way from the Sun and only receives 84 Terrawatts of Power per day over its entire surface, a very small fraction of what the Sun is producing.
