How does radiation from the sun affects Earth's climate?

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Last Answer : is warmed by terrestrial radiation

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Description : What are Earth's magnetic field affects?

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Last Answer : A. Solar flare

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Last Answer : The radiant energy coming from our local star, the Sun.

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Last Answer : D. Surface temperature with radioactive forcing.

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Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- 10,000 TO 20,000 YEARS AGO

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Last Answer : Heat rises from the surface of the earth in the form ofinfra-red radiation.

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Last Answer : (2) Terrestrial Radiation Explanation: Even after the sunset when the sun goes down, the incoming radiation from the sun stops, but there is still a lot of radiation that has been absorbed ... i.e. terrestrial radiation heats up the atmosphere more than the incoming solar radiation i.e. insolation

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Last Answer : B. Path loss

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Last Answer : (C) SO3

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Last Answer : (C) Ozone

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Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- ABSORBING OUTGOING LONG WAVE RADIATION FROM THE EARTH 

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Last Answer : ANSWER: GREENHOUSE EFFECT

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Description : My first is found on the ocean wave, In the spring, the pit, and the mine; My second below earth’s surface you have, Where seldom the sun can shine. My whole your dinner-table must grace, And seldom fails to obtain a place.What am I? -Riddles

Last Answer : Salt-cellar.

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Last Answer : Evaporates, returning the atmosphere until it becomes saturated, at which point it will return to the ground as rain.

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Last Answer : Yes.

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Last Answer : Yes.

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Last Answer : Ans:(c)

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Last Answer : Ans:(d)

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Last Answer : Ans:(a)

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Last Answer : (3) it is heated by the Earth's surface Explanation: The lowest part of the troposphere is the warmest because it is closest to the ground, where the heat is coming from.