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Carbon dioxide is called greenhouse gas because it is:

  1. A
    transparent to sunlight but traps heat.
  2. B
    transparent to heat but traps sunlight.
  3. C
    used in greenhouse to increase plant growth.
  4. D
    transparent to both sunlight and heat.

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Carbon dioxide () is categorized as a greenhouse gas because it is transparent to incoming short-wave solar radiation (sunlight) but efficiently absorbs and traps outgoing long-wave infrared radiation (heat) re-radiated from the Earth's surface, leading to the warming of the atmosphere.

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Carbon dioxide is called greenhouse gas because it is:
A
transparent to sunlight but traps heat.
B
transparent to heat but traps sunlight.
C
used in greenhouse to increase plant growth.
D
transparent to both sunlight and heat.

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