Why si the sky blue?

Question

mii little cuz ask mii that all the time but i cant answer him

Answer 1

The sunlight reflects off the lakes, oceans, etc.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/questio...

Answer 2

I don't mean this in a mean or sarcastic way but I think the way I would explain it would be:

Because God wanted it that way-if your little cuz is old enough to understand that

or the more logical way would be because it reflects off of water

~melissa

Answer 3

the atmosphere refracts light from the sun like a prism and the only colour that is left that you can see is blue

ask him if he knows what a rainbow looks like and then explain it from there. and that white light is made of different colours

water is blue because it reflects the sky. water is not blue, its clear........ mostly

its funny how these people cite the right source but dont read it and say completely the wrong thing

Answer 4

Because of the water!!!

Answer 5

time in memorial... REFLECTIONS from the earth

Answer 6

Most of the light that is received through the atmosphere is long wave radiation and it is usually in the colors,  red, orange and yellow.   Most of that light is not reflected back and therefore not absorbed.   But blue light waves are shorter wavelengths,  therefore more intense and those waves are absorbed by gas molecules and radiated out in all directions.

Answer 7

Because of the atmosphere

Answer 8

everyone here who says its because of the reflection of the sea and lakes is wrong. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Ge...

Answer 9

It''s actaully the sunlight reflecting off the earth's water

Answer 10

Light coming from the sun is what's called "white light" White light contains all the colors of the rainbow. When it enters Earth's atmosphere this light is separated into its individual colors by chemical elements in the atmosphere and scattered across the sky. Nitrogen is the most abundant element in our atmosphere, and that element scatters the color blue across our sky more than the other colors. In space, there is no atmosphere to separate colors from the white light and space looks black.

Answer 11

Because it reflects blue light.

Answer 12

the sky is bue because of the feflection of the water

Answer 13

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

Answer 14

So, why is the sky blue? It is because blue light from the sun strikes the air molecules and scatters and our eyes perceive it as blue.Sunlight is made up of all different colors of light, but because of the elements in the atmosphere the color blue is scattered much more efficiently than the other colors.

The light from the Sun looks white. But it is really made up of all the colors of the rainbow. Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.

Answer 15

It's actually the atmosphere with the rays from the sun passing through it, and the moisture in the air. That creates the bluish color that the naked eye sees.