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Pollution — Science STD 8 — Question

Maharashtra BoardEnglish MediumSTD 8SciencePollution3 Marks
Question
What is greenhouse effect?
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Answer

  1. Greenhouse effect is the ; phenomenon due to which global warming and climate change occur.
  2. The earth receives solar energy in the form of heat from the sun. The surface of earth absorbs this heat and reflects it back to the atmosphere as infrared radiation. Some of this heat energy goes directly into space.

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