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1. The molecules of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere ----------- the heat balance of the Earth by acting as a one-way ---------- . Although these molecules allow radiation at visible wavelengths, where most of the ------------ of sunlight is concentrated, to pass through, they absorb some of the longer-wavelength, infrared emissions radiated from the Earth's ----------, radiation that would otherwise be transmitted back into ------------. For the Earth to --------------- a constant average temperature, such ------------- from the planet must balance incoming solar -------------. If there were no carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, heat would -------------- from the Earth much more easily. The surface temperature would be so much lower that the oceans might be a ----------- mass of ice.

[DBBL Probationary Officer-2011 : 2011]

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