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What is a form of oxygen that protects us from high-energy radiation emitted by the sun?
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Why does the temperature in the thermosphere steadily rise?
nitrogen and oxygen atom absorb solar radiation.
The ozone layer protects life on Earth from?
The atmosphere protects living things from a lot of things. Some of these include keeping temperatures from being too hot or cold, being burned severely by the sun, and keeping oxygen in so that we can breathe.
Do the charged particles emitted from the sun cause the Northern Lights?
Yes, charged particles from the sun collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the earth's ionosphere to cause the Northern and Southern Lights.
When the solar wind collides with the earth's magnetic field?
When the solar wind collides with the earth's magnetic field , the field becomes distorted and deflects the solar wind around the earth. This protects and preserves the earth's atmosphere and shields the earth from much deadly solar radiation.
What problems do space travellers have to deal with?
Lack of oxygen or gravity constant radiation exposeur particles traveling at thousands of mph. Space is full of cosmic dangers
Which component of the biosphere contains oxygen that you breathe as well as oxygen that protects us from radiation?
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What is significance of air?
Our atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation and also gives us the oxygen we need to breathe.
What are three oxygen atoms combined that protects us from ultraviolet radiation?
The molecule formed is ozone. It is present as the ozone layer.
What part of the atmosphere protect the earth from utlraviolet radiation?
The stratosphere protects the Earth from most all harmful radiation. The nitrogen and oxygen absorb UV-C and more energetic radiation, and the ozone formed by some oxygen absorbing UV-C... in turn absorbs UV-B (which damages DNA).
How does a greenhouse gas work?
Long wave radiation emitted by the sun reflects off earth's surface and is absorbed by heat trapping gas in the atmosphere. Nitrogen and oxygen do NOT absorb infrared radiation, but CO2, CH4, and H2O DO trap heat.
What form of oxygen that protects us from the sun?
Ozone is a form of oxygen atoms. It protects us from the sun.
Name the gas that naturally occurs in the air and screens out harmful rays from the sun?
Ozone (O3) forms from oxygen (O2) in the upper atmosphere and screens out most of the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
What is ozone atom?
Ozone is not an atom, but a molecule containing 3 Oxygen atoms. In the lower atmosphere, it is harmful to plants an animals, but it is beneficial in the upper atmosphere, as it protects Earth from ultraviolet radiation.
Function of the components of ozone layer?
The nitrogen and oxygen protects Earth's surface from UV-C and more energetic radiation. The ozone uniquely protect Earth's surface from UV-B.
What is the uv radiation that absorbs oxygen compound?
If your question was 'What is the oxygen compound that absorbs UV radiation?' - then ozone
What is the name of the element that makes up the ozone layer of the Earth's atmosphere which protects potentially damaging electromagnetic radiation from reaching Earth's surface?
Ozone it is three oxygen molecules bonded together.
What percentage of the ozone layer is natural?
Something close to 99.9999%. Ozone is destroyed by the UV it protects us from, and by time and contaminants. And more ozone is made as oxygen and nitrogen do the same with more energetic radiation from the Sun.
