19 results for “sunlight”
Plants & Fungi
Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light
sunlight, water and air into sugar and oxygen. It is the chemical reaction that feeds almost
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The Human Body
Skin, Hair and Nails
sunlight Skin colour comes mainly from a pigment called melanin, made by cells at the base
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Planets & the Solar System
The Sun
sunlight in disguise. Plants capture it; animals eat plants; coal, oil and gas are sunlight stored
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Planet Earth
The Oceans
Sunlight does not get far. By 200 metres down, too little remains for plants to grow
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Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
sunlight and then 42 years in darkness. When Voyager 2 flew past in January 1986, Uranus
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Planet Earth
The Atmosphere
sunlight and released oxygen as waste. Around 2.4 billion years ago it began to accumulate in the air, and it reached
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Planets & the Solar System
Mercury and Venus
sunlight that Venus is the brightest object in our sky after the Sun and Moon. Beneath
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Space & the Universe
The Life of a Star
sunlight that warms the Earth. Swelling into a giant When the hydrogen in the core runs
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The Human Body
The Skeleton and Bones
sunlight and which the gut needs to absorb calcium, help keep bone strong. Bones also record
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Planet Earth
Weather and Climate
sunlight in but trap the heat radiating back out, the greenhouse effect that keeps Earth about
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Life & Biology
Ecosystems and Food Webs
sunlight and climate. It can be as small as a rotting log or as large as the Amazon
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Life & Biology
What Is Life? The Cell
sunlight to make sugar in the first place. Bacteria are built more simply, with no nucleus
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
sunlight and the solar wind, so a comet leaving the Sun travels tail-first. The European
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Plants & Fungi
Fungi
sunlight; it has to find it, as animals do, and it digests that food outside its body
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Plants & Fungi
Carnivorous Plants
Sunlight is plentiful, so the plants can make sugar, but they cannot grow without the minerals
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Planet Earth
Volcanoes
sunlight for a year or two. After Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, global temperatures dropped by about
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Energy and Heat
sunlight and radiate low-quality heat. Animals eat the plants and radiate heat in turn; a resting
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Plants & Fungi
Trees and Forests
Sunlight is the prize every plant competes for, and the plant that grows taller than its neighbours
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Light
Light is a wave, a particle and the fastest thing there is. Everything you see is
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