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What is meant by green house effect? Name three greenhouse gases.


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Greenhouse effect:

  1. The process that occurs when the energy from the sun enters the Earth's atmosphere and increases the Earth's temperature, but the atmosphere prevents the heat to return to space resulting in making the planet warmer is called the greenhouse effect.
  2. It is due to the presence of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, hydrofluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, and other gases in the atmosphere.

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