NEET Biology question

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Carbon dioxide is called green house gas because it is **[DUMET 2009]**

(A)Used in green house to increase plant growth
(B)Transparent to heat but traps sunlight
(C)Transparent to sunlight but traps heatCorrect
(D)Transparent to both sunlight and heat

Answer: (C)

Solution

allows incoming short-wavelength solar radiation to pass through to the earth's surface, but it absorbs and re-radiates the outgoing long-wavelength heat (infrared) radiation, trapping heat near the

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