Question

So-called greenhouse gases have been given this name because they:
(A) trap the heat radiated from the earth’s surface
(B) are produced by plants
(C) are necessary for plant growth
(D) are similar to gases produced in a greenhouse

Answer 1

Hint: When gases in Earth's atmosphere capture the heat from the Sun, the process is known as the greenhouse effect. Earth becomes significantly hotter due to this process than it would be if this process were absent. These gases and the process itself have been named as greenhouse effect because it is similar to what happens in a man-made greenhouse which is made up of glass.

Step by step solution:

The greenhouse effect is the result of the sun's heat being trapped in the lower atmosphere as a result of an increase in pollutants like carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and ozone in the lower atmosphere are the principal greenhouse gases whose concentrations are rising. Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is the most significant and the most important of all greenhouse gases. Volcanoes, the burning and decomposition of organic materials, aerobic (oxygen-using) animal respiration, the burning of fossil fuels, the clearing of land, and human cement manufacturing are some of the sources of atmospheric CO₂.
Greenhouse gases are called so because it absorbs heat in the form of infrared light from the Sun, a greenhouse gas that circulates that heat throughout the atmosphere before losing it to space. That's because the greenhouse's glass walls keep the heat from the Sun inside. On Earth, the greenhouse effect also acts in the same way. Like the glass roof used in a man-made greenhouse, gases in the atmosphere (which we call greenhouse gases.) for example carbon dioxide (have a maximum percentage when compared to other greenhouse gases) trap heat. We refer to such gases as greenhouse gases.
Thus, option (A) is correct.
Note: The positive effects of the greenhouse effect. In order to maintain life on earth, well, habitable, it warms the world to its pleasant average temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius). Without it, the world would resemble Mars more and be a frozen, uninhabitable place.