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Rasek [7]
3 years ago
15

The mechanism by which the atmosphere traps incoming shortwave radiation and outgoing longwave radiation and keeps it in the atm

osphere near Earth's surface is called the _________.
Geography
1 answer:
Aleks [24]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

Greenhouse effect

Explanation:

Greenhouse effect is the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.

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