Thursday, December 15, 2011

What type of heat transfer warms the earth? Convection, conduction or radiation?

Mostly it is radiation from the sun. A little heat is conducted through the crust from the core of the Earth, but not enough to keep the planet livable. Convection in the atmosphere keeps the air mixed and spreads the heat coming from the sun to the night side of the planet.|||There are quite a few, out of the three possibilities you gave most likely convection.





But the radiated heat from the sun also heats the earth.|||radiation


electromagnetic waves radiated from the sun heats up the earth.

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