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प्रश्न
What is the difference between stratospheric and ground level ozone?
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उत्तर
Stratospheric ozone or good ozone is a layer surrounding the earth’s atmosphere. It protects all life on earth from the damaging effects of the sun’s rays. Ground level ozone is formed by a photochemical reaction between atmospheric oxygen (O2) and smog forming chemicals at the earth’s surface, it is odourless and colourless, but can have profound effects on the human respiratory system.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
How depletion of the ozone layer affect living organisms?
How does ozone affect any ecosystem?
What are the causes of depletion of ozone layer? Which diseases are likely to be caused if the ozone layer will become thinner?
Write the harmful effects of ozone depletion.
Explain what is smog. Give its effects.
‘There is a hole in the ozone layer’. What do you understand by this?
Ozone is abundant in this layer. Ozone heats this layer as it absorbs from incoming ultraviolet radiation from the sun:
Name or state the following:
The atom which reacts with oxygen to form ozone.
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.
