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It prevents harmful electromagnetic rays from reaching the ground. These include x-rays and gamma rays.
Answer2: An outer layer of the atmosphere, the stratosphere, contains a form of oxygen called ozone, which absorbs 99 percent of incoming ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The ozone layer helps to protect many forms of life including humans and plankton from dangerous radiation. The amount of stratospheric ozone is not fixed but is directly proportional to the intensity of UV radiation, make the ozone layer a dynamic, efficient shield. The atmosphere also protects us from a barrage of millions of meteoroids ranging in size from tiny particles to boulder. Fortunately, the majority of these burn up in the atmosphere, becoming bright flashes of light called meteors. Earth's shield does not block radiation that is essential to life, such as heat and visible light. The atmosphere even helps distribute the heat around the globe, and at night the atmosphere acts as a blanket, slowing the escape of heat. (see Earth's Dynamic Shield from 2/09 Awake magazine on Jehovah's Witnesses official website)
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Does the ozone layer act like a shield to protect us from ultraviolet radiation?
Yes it does. It acts as a shield.
What does the shield around the earth look like?
It is a slightly blue colour, and it's called the atmosphere.
The earth's magnetic shield is important because it?
The most important use for the magnetic shield is that it protects our atmosphere from the solar wind. The solar wind is a bunch of charged particles that is emitted and shot from the sun in all directions. These particles will pound away a planet's atmosphere, much like waves in the ocean pound away a rocky coastline. The magnetic shield steers the solar wind away from our atmosphere and thus protecting it.
Which gases help form the earths protective shield?
The gas which help in forming the earth's protective shield is ozone gas. It is present in the atmosphere as the ozone layer in the stratospheric regionof atmosphere.
Which layers of the atmosphere act like giant magnets?
the magnetosphere. it is earth's magnetic field
How does atmosphere act like a glass house?
by protecting the earth from the harmful UV rays
How does the magnetosphere happen?
If we did not have the Magnetosphere we would die from harmful Solar Wind that the Magnetosphere blocks. The Magnetosphere is like our personal shield along with our atmosphere!
What is full form of CFC that destroy ozone shield?
Chlorofluorocarbons. This is the full form of CFC that destroy the ozone shield in our atmosphere.
How does carbon dioxide in the atmosphere act like a greenhouse?
Sunlight that travels from the sun, through the Earth's atmosphere and reaches the Earth will heat up the Earth, including the atmosphere.Carbon Dioxide then will act like a blanket to all this heat, keeping it from being expelled out of Earth's atmosphere and into space.That is the effect a greenhouse has with moderating the temperature for the incumbent vegetation.
How does the atmosphere on venus act like a greenhouse?
The atmosphere is very thick because of all the Carbon Dioxide. Therefore, it holds in the sun's heat which is not allowed to escape.
How the atmosphere acts as shield from harmful radiation from outer-space?
the ozone layer
What layer in the atmosphere that shield's life on earth from sun rays?
The atmosphere is the one that shields us. It is specifically shielded by the ozone layer.
