Why is the sky blue??????

Question

Isn't this the typical question?? I am eleven, but very smart. could you explain this to an eleven to thirteen year old understanding

Answer 1

Elizabeth explain to a 11 to 13 yr old, the color blue reflects the easiest, so the humidity in the air and the lakes and oceans, are reflecting off of the atmosphere.  

Answer 2

Because of the nitrogen, that's what makes the sky seem blue---it is also called bluelight....I have RP and over the years developed a real  sensitivity to light, and my ophthalmologist explained me that the nitrogen is what makes the sky seem blue(and that my eyes do not tolerate the nitrogen in the light).

Answer 3

BECAUSE OCEANS REFLECT OFF THE SUN WITCH MAKES IT BOUNCE UP CAUSING THE SKY TO TURN BLUE

Answer 4

Because of Rayleigh Scattering.  It causes the lightwaves to refract coming through the atmosphere causing them to give us a different color.

Answer 5

The sky is blue partly because air scatters short-wavelength light in preference to longer wavelengths. Combined, these effects scatter (bend away in all directions) some short, blue light waves while allowing almost all longer, red light waves to pass straight through. When we look toward a part of the sky not near the sun, the blue color we see is blue light waves scattered down toward us from the white sunlight passing through the air overhead. Near sunrise and sunset, most of the light we see comes in nearly tangent to the Earth's surface, so that the light's path through the atmosphere is so long that much of the blue and even yellow light is scattered out, leaving the sun rays and the clouds it illuminates red.