When heat is reflected from the earth's surface and trapped in the atmosphere, this phenomenon is referred to as:

Global warming

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Ozone depletion

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The Greenhouse effect

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Thermal pollution

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Solution

The correct option is B The Greenhouse effect
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and the oceans because of the Greenhouse effect.

The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without its atmosphere.

Thus option C is correct.

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