alleryStart learning →Heat from the Sun reaches the Earth across empty space by which process?
AConduction
BConvection
CRadiation
DEvaporation
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Radiation
Space has no matter to carry heat, so the energy travels as radiation, which needs no medium.
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