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The Earth is a beautiful and majestic place because energy is available to carve landscapes, light up the skies, and support life. Energy shows itself and stores itself in many ways. Our world of energy is truly a wondrous place. Energy from the sun heats the land of the earth and builds cleansing winds over the sea. Plants convert the sun's energy to food and store it as wood. Animals get warmth from the sun and energy from the food we eat, and oxygen fuels our blood. |
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The Earth and the plants and animals that inhabit Her obtain, store, and use energy in a great variety of ways. Most of the energy on Earth comes from a great Hydrogen ball, the sun. With the exception of nuclear energy and some latent chemical energy, left over from the formation of the planets, Hydrogen provides about the only energy available to the Earth and it comes from the sun in the form of heat and light. The Earth uses heat and light to support it's inhabitants and to fuel the systems that let land, sea, and air coexist. Often, Hydrogen plays a part in any transfer or storage of energy, Hydrogen can be found in many forms and materials throughout the Universe. Even water is 2/3rds Hydrogen. Without the Sun there would be no photosynthesis, no green plants no oxygen and no humans. |
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The effects of energy, or forces, may be seen in a multitude of ways in Nature, and may even be seen in many ways at once. A cave formation for example can exhibit the results of geothermal energy, water erosion, chemical processes, gravity, and impaction. |
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