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Chapter One - Hello Earth

Chapter Two - Describing Our Planet

Chapter Three - Our Atmosphere

Chapter Four - Atmospheric Temperatures

Chapter Five - Atmospheric Pressures

Chapter Six - Atmospheric Moisture

Chapter Seven - Atmospheric Disturbances

Chapter Eight - The Hydrosphere

Chapter Nine - The Biosphere

Infrared Waves

Infrared waves are commonly referred to has heat rays. Heat is in fact infrared radiation. Hold your hand next to a hot stove. Do you feel the heat radiating off of the stove and traveling towards your hand? If our eyes could see infrared radiation, what would it look like? You would see anything that produces heat, including plants and animals, no matter how dark it was. On average the Sun produces very little infrared radiation, compared to the amount of ultraviolet radiation and visible light that it creates.

Infrared Waves

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