Ozone

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Percent of nitrogen in earth atmosphere

78%

What gas is currently at .04% in our earths atmosphere?

Carbon dioxide

Ozone is less stable than diatomic oxygen, so it tries to give up what?

Oxygen atoms

Oxygen increase and carbon decreases due to?

Photosynthesis

Ozone is also a key ingredient in what?

Smog!

Where do cfcs come from

Spray cans, refrigeration, air conditioning( manmade)

Southern

Spring

What satellites are being used to gather information?

Suomi NPP satellite

Stratosphere(Dr.Jekyll)

The "good" ozone that protects life on earth from the harmful effects of the sun's ultraviolet

Percent of oxygen In earth atmosphere

21%

——- collide with ————- to form an ozone molecule

2Oxygen atom, oxygen molecule

Water vapor Valics between?

1%-4% depending on location

Most lies between —— and —- miles about the earths surface

10 - 30

Ozone hole

Chemical reactions unloving chlorine and bromine causes zoom in the southern polar region to be destroyed rapidly/severly

What is bad in cfc

Chlorine

Water-> gas is?

Evaporation

Northern region

Fall

Simple way between the different regions of the atmosphere

Good up high and bad nearby

What is the region of the atmosphere considered? What types of effect?

Greenhouse gas; powerful

What type of heat capacity does water have?

High

Ozone would keep up a dynamic equilibrium life on earth, if not for ——- contributing to the chemical processes

Human

What are CFC's

Long lived chemicals

1987

Montreal Protocol - treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by banning the use of CFCs that contribute to ozone layer depletion

What is Dobson unit?

Most common unit for measuring ozone concentration

Troposphere(Mr. Hyde)

The ground-level "bad" ozone is an air pollutant that damages human health and common materials

How does CFC's harm the ozone layer in the stratosphere?

The ultraviolet light causer the cfc to break apart and release chlorine very reactive atom that repeatedly destroys ozone

Ozone made up of how many oxygen atoms?

Three

Only ozone blocks the most energetic ultraviolet light

UV-C and UV-B

What formed the original atmosphere?

Volcanoes

shortest wavelength color

X-ray, micro wave, ultraviolet, and infra red

Longest wavelength

radio waves to gamma rays


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