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How is ozone both a necessary component and a pollutant at the same time?
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Ozone is good at the stratospheric level. It is a pollutant at ground level.
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How ozone is both beneficial and harmful?
Ozone is beneficial in stratosphere. It acts as a pollutant at ground level.
How can ozone be both good plus bad for life on earth?
Ozone is good at atmospheric level. It is bad at ground level as pollutant.
What effects the ozone have on the humans?
The ozone has both positive and negative effects. It protects us from UV rays but also acts as pollutant.
Why is ozone harmful in troposphere?
There is normally no life that breathes in the stratosphere. In the troposphere, both plants and animals suffer when significant amounts of ozone are present.
Which statement is false regarding ozone can affect the lungs and respiratory system?
Ozone can affect both lungs and respiratory system. It is because it acts as a pollutant over the surface.
How can ozone be both a pollutant and something beneficial to earth?
Ozone occurring at 'our' level in the atmosphere is a pollutant, because it is harmful to people and some materials (such as rubber). However in the top of the atmosphere it acts as a 'shield' by stopping UV from the Sun, which would be harmful to human health.
How is ozone bad for life on Earth?
The ozone is bad on the ground level. It acts as a pollutant.
How is ozone good for us?
The Ozone Layer of the Earth protects us from the sun. It is very good, but pollution is destroying it, and eventually we won't have much protection from the sun. This is why scientists believe that the Earth is getting warmer, otherwise known as global warming.
How can the ozone layer be good and bad for life on earth?
Ozone is both a boon and a bane. Boon at atmospheric level as it protects us. Bane as it acts as a pollutant at ground level.
What gas is both harmful and beneficial to life on Earth?
CO2, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Ozone. Water vapour
How could ozon be both good and bad for life of earth?
it can be pullutant but it can help in a way
Is smog an air pollutant?
Both the classic London smog (sulfur dioxide, fog and particulates) and the present photochemical smog (ozone, PAHs, hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxides oxides) are air pollution resulting from primary air emissions like hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides.
