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प्रश्न
Enumerate the damage to humans, animals and plants caused due to ozone depletion.
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उत्तर
Damage cause due to ozone depletion to humans:
- Sun burn and skin cancer
- Disruption in function of DNA
- Early aging of skin
- weakening of immune system
- eye cataract and eye damage
Animals: Severe damage to cells of animals and all the damages caused to humans as above.
Plants:
- Retards plant growth.
- Reduces chlorophyll content
- inhibits pollen germination
- Disrupts ecosystem, quality of vegetables
- increases harmful mutations
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Ozone depletion is occurring widely in the stratosphere; it leads to an ozone hole caused mainly due to ______.
Give scientific reasons:
Ozone present in the stratosphere is called as “good ozone”.
The following picture depicts a certain phenomenon
- Name the phenomenon and explain it.
- Enlist the sources that are responsible for the above mentioned phenomenon.
- List out the effects of the above phenomenon on humans.
Discuss in detail the process of ozone depletion.
What is an ozone layer. State the distribution of the ozone layer in the stratosphere.
Select the correct answer from the following statement:
The gas which in presence of U.V. light gives two atoms of the same gas.
The substance which is chiefly responsible for the depletion of ozone layer is ______.
Depletion of ozone is mainly due to
In 1987, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) forged an agreement to freeze the production of a certain chemical to the year 1986 level. Name the chemical and the manufacturing companies m which this chemical was being mostly used.
In what way this chemical damage -
- the upper layers of the atmosphere and ultimately
- the organisms on the earth.
Which one of the following is measured in Dobson units (DU)?
