What are three things that can happen to the energy Earth receives from the Sun?
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absorbed, reflected and used (IE: converted to energy)
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One consequence would be wherever the earth stopped the side with the sun on it would fry and the side without the sun would freeze.  Gravity would be disoriented so the tide wouldn't go in and out as usual.  The list goes on...
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The sun is a star. When it becomes a red giant the earth will be vaporized. thats a few billion years off but it will happen. So yes it does.
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the Sun,and the earths Bio-mass.\nthe sun makes it hot (you may know that already)\nand the trees(bio-mass) absorb heat and release it .\nso regulating temperatures between day and night.\nthe ozone layer and aquifiris manta(atmosphere ,clouds,mist etc.)\nworks as a filter and determines how much sun(heat)is allowed to enter.
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Energy in the form of photons is generated in the sun's core. Photons like to take off at the speed of light, so they do. But they move only 1micron before running into(being absorbed by) a gas molecule. That's because the gas atoms at the center of the sun has a pressure of 250 billion times the earth atmosphere's sea level pressure. That is why gas atoms are so hard for photons to miss. But the gas atom gets so excited with the extra energy it carries from that hot photon that it lets go of another photon, that promptly runs into another gas atom. This emitting & absorption occurs 100 million trillion times PER YEAR.  You'd think all this elbowing going on that it would get to the sun's surface fairly quickly. But this radiative process takes from 30,000 to 200,000 years to make it only about 55% of the way to the sun's surface. But once it makes it to this higher convective layer of the sun(like the earth atmosphere's lower convective atmosphere), then the energy is transported fairly quickly to the sun's surface.
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Sort of!  As the sun slowly runs out of (mostly hydrogen) fuel, it will expand into a red giant and it's radius will be greater than the current position of the Earth.  However, the Earth's orbit is currently projected to move farther out while this happens so our planet will not actually be engulfed by the sun.  It will, however, experience a very large temperature increase.
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Dead.\n\nThe only source for energy for life on earth is the sun, and the only way that energy gets here is light.
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"In about five billion years, the Sun will use up most of its hydrogen fuel. It will enter the final stages of its life. It will collapse, and then the outer layer of the Sun will expand. It will form a red giant.\n\nIt will be so big that some of the planets will be inside it. These planets will burn away. Which planets get destroyed will depend on how much mass the Sun loses."\nhttp://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_Solar_System/Solar_System#What_will_happen_to_the_Solar_System.3F\n\n\nThere's more interesting reading and some illustrations here.\nhttp://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Lectures/vistas97.html
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If there was no Sun, there would be very little life on Earth. Sunlight supports almost all life on Earth via photosynthesis, and, via heating from insulation, drives climate and the weather cycle.
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I am going to take a guess and say the moon.\n\nNo, I am kidding, it's the Sun\n\nSolar energy can be converted in to electricity and heat.
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No more than the earth does work orbiting the sun. An orbit has constant energy, and if it is not circular, there is a continuous process of exchanging kinetic energy with potential energy while the sum stays the same.
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The sun will expand and engolf the Earth before it explodes.  This means we will never watch the explosion, we would burn up first, but it is not going to happen in our lifetime.
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1- yup, Earth\n2 - The sun is about 400 times the diameter of the moon, but is also about 400 times farther away\n3 - Cosmic rays ( a form of electromagnetic energy that would sterilize the surface of our planet within a few months if not blocked ), and meteors, thousands of which would hit us every hour.
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The moon gets its light from the sun!  Way out in outer space, the sun produces light and heat.  The sun's energy is reflected off the surface of the moon and bounced back to the Earth.  What we see is the reflection of the sun's light on the moon.
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There is a lot of possibilities starting from the simplest one which is wind generator.  More complicated would be water generation where a usually dam is build and potential energy of the water accumulated behind the dam moves water through turbines and generates power. Some other may include thermal energy of the earth. If you drill deep enough you will get to the earth crust zone where temperature is high to produce steam and this steam is converted (generated) into the electric power. Ocean waves are also source to generate energy.
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Our sun provides energy and heat, so, it determines what kind of weather we have. Other planets and even our moon, help with gravitational pull that makes us have a year of approx. 365 days. Also, our yearly stations (winter, spring, summer and fall) depend upon the earth´s rotation around the sun and if any of the planets was missing, our planet would modify its orbit around the sun, the position of earth would change and maybe, life on earth would no longer be possible.
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Solar Power harnesses the energy of the sun to turn water into high pressure steam. The sun gives panels which heat the water kinetic energy to affect the interaction energy of the water (like how you get a sunburn). The steam rotates a turbine to generate power.