GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Greenhouse gases allow the sun’s light to shine onto Earth’s surface, and then the gases, such as ozone, trap the heat that reflects back from the surface inside Earth’s atmosphere. The gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse-thus the name, greenhouse gas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is one of several greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. They are referred to as greenhouse gases because, like the glass of a greenhouse, they let visible light from the Sun pass through the atmosphere but they absorb long-wavelength infrared energy from the Earth and keep the atmosphere warm.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Earth’s atmosphere is all around us. It is the air that we breathe. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere behave much like the glass panes in a greenhouse. Sunlight enters the Earth’s atmosphere, passing through the blanket of greenhouse gases.

Detailed explanation-4: -Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important heat-trapping gas, or greenhouse gas, that comes from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas), from wildfires, and from natural processes like volcanic eruptions.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Earth’s atmosphere acts like the glass panes on a greenhouse by trapping some of the radiation received from the sun. Incident radiation energy penetrates the atmosphere and some is reflected back from the Earth’s surface to the atmosphere in the form of infrared (IR) radiation.