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directly and directly has been the major source small portion and heat that is radiated to Earth as we know it possible the sun's heat also helps evaporate the water turns to Earth as rain the sun's heat helps cause winds by provides us with nearly all our major fuels a tree like all green plants manufactures food by a process called photosynthesis which depends in part on the energy of sunlight the food is manufactured in the leaves of the tree and then used in its growth the sun's energy is stored in the wood of the tree as it grows and this energy is released when the wood is burned when coal burns the sun's energy is also being released it was stored in prehistoric growing plants that eventually were changed into coal petroleum is believed to have been formed deep underground from the bodies of tiny prehistoric plants and animals if that is true when petroleum or products of petroleum are burned energy from Sunshine is released that was stored in the plants and animals when they were were alive most of our machines today depend on fuels containing the stored energy of the sun it is easy to see how great an effect the sun has on our daily lives we think of our Earth as a big place