Ozone Formation
Ozone in the stratosphere absorbs this.
What is harmful UV radiation?
This molecule is the primary anthropogenic cause of O3 breakdown.
What are CFCs?
This gas makes up 78% of earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
What is the respiratory system?
What is urbanization?
Stratospheric ozone prevents these health problems.
What is skin cancer and cataracts?
These are all sources of the molecule that breaks down ozone.
What are aerosols, refrigerant, hair spray, propellant, etc.?
This layer in the atmosphere contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
The transmission of energy in the form of waves.
What is radiation?
A complex of interconnected food chains in one ecosystem.
What is a food web?
This breaks O2 into two free oxygen atoms.
What is UV radiation?
This is the location on earth where natural conditions can lead to ozone depletion.
What is Antarctica?
This is what causes the Coriolis effect.
What is variation in solar energy reaching earth's surface?
The molecule humans breathe to survive.
What is O2?
The symbiotic relationship represented by gut bacteria and humans.
This type of ozone is harmful to humans.
What is tropospheric ozone?
These naturally occurring weather phenomena are responsible for the annual hold in the ozone layer.
What are polar stratospheric clouds?
This phenomenon occurs due to heat being absorbed by streets, rooftops, and parking lots in urban areas.
What is the urban heat island effect?
Man-made
What is anthropogenic?
A wetland ecosystem that has standing water and forested areas.
What is a swamp?
UV radiation breaks down this molecule from O2 and O.
What is ozone?
This element can persist in the atmosphere for an extended period of time, allowing it to breakdown numerous ozone molecules.
What is chlorine?
This, along with NOx and hydrocarbons, is required for the formation of photochemical smog.
What is sunlight?
The two molecules, that in the presence of PSCs, break down and release Cl into the atmosphere.
The number and variety of earth's organisms.
What is biodiversity?