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How is ozone created near the surface of the earth?
Ozone is created at the surface via various methods. Lightening is one of the major reason.
What role did ozone play in evolution of life on earth?
Ozone accumulated in the ozone layer reduced the amount of ulvraviolet radiation reaching the Earth's surface, thus allowing organisms with DNA to live on or near Earth's surface.
Why is it dangerous when ozone is near Earth's surface?
Ozone is a protective substance at the atmosphere level. It can be dangerous as a pollutant at the level of ground.
What is meant by good ozone and how is it good?
Good ozone is ozone that is between the DNA-based life on/near Earth's surface and the Sun. Ozone absorbs the UV-B from our Sun, that would otherwise cause increased cataracts, cancer, mutation, decreased crop yields, and increase loss of arable land.
Ozone has two layers?
Ozone is distributed continuously from minima at "space" and near the Earth' surface, and a maxima where UV-C is maximally absorbed by oxygen in the lower stratosphere (where the ozone layer is located). There are sources of compounds that produce ozone near the Earth's surface (NOx + VOC from combustion processes for example), as well as some lightning and natural background radiation that can produce ozone too. So, no each planet only has one ozone layer, in general.
What is the difference between near the surface ozone and stratosphere ozone?
The near surface ozone acts as a pollutant. However the stratospheric ozone is very useful and acts as protecting layer for the harmful radiations emitted from the sun.
Why is the ozone beneficial to the earth?
Ozone reduces the amount of UV-B that reaches the Earth's surface. Biology dependent in linear strands of DNA can survive above ground and near the surface of the oceans without undergoing massive mutation and/or cancer.How does ozone layer benefit Earth?
What is one reason that ozone near the earth's suface is dangerous?
Ozone near the Earth's surface is dangerous because it can cause respiratory issues, such as aggravating asthma or causing difficulty breathing. It is a harmful air pollutant that can also damage crops and other vegetation.
Why ozone is not stable near to the earth's surface?
Ozone near the Earth's surface is not stable because it reacts readily with pollutants like nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, leading to its breakdown. Additionally, ozone at ground level is influenced by sunlight and temperature, which can accelerate its decomposition. This is why ozone concentrations are usually higher in the upper atmosphere where conditions are more stable.
How does earth naturally make the ozone layer?
Yes. The amount of ozone between the Sun and the Earth's surface is a delicate balance between UV-C from the Sun, the host of contaminants that can block ozone production, the host of contaminants that can decay ozone (faster), the UV-B from the Sun that also destroys ozone, and time (ozone is unstable and decays). That is why ozone is found near the region where oxygen is shattered by intense radiation, but not much above it. Water vapor below the thermocline at the top of the troposphere prevents ozone from surviving to reach Earth's surface.
What is a reason that the ozone near the earths surface is dangerous?
Ozone near the Earth's surface is dangerous because it can cause respiratory issues such as coughing, throat irritation, and shortness of breath. It can also exacerbate conditions like asthma and other lung diseases. Additionally, it can harm vegetation and ecosystem balance.
What layer has the most concentration of ozone?
The stratosphere does, though there is also ozone near the surface. Stratospheric ozone is natural and helpful, keeping most ultraviolet rays out of the atmosphere. Without it, life on earth would not exist as we know it.
