QUESTIONS ABOUT GOOD OZONE
Use the resources available in the Student Resource Page
to help answer the following questions about "GOOD OZONE".
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Why should we be concerned about the UV Index? What type of information
does it give us?
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At what time during the day is it most damaging UV radiation?
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What are at least four precautions we should take to prevent any health
damage from UV radiation?
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List at least five different health problems that an excessive amount of
UV radiation cause?
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What is the difference between UVA, UVB, and UVC?
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What does UV radiation have to do with "Good Ozone"?
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What is the importance of the "good ozone"?
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Where is the upper atmosphere is the "good ozone" formed? At what
altitude does most of the "good ozone" exist?
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How is "good ozone" formed?
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What is destroying our "good ozone" in the upper atmosphere?
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What can we do as human beings to help prevent the destruction of our "good
ozone"?
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Go to the "Ozone Hole Tour" to answer the following questions:
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What changes do you find in the "Ozone Hole" over the Antarctica from 1980
to 1991?
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What is the "recipe" for the destruction of the ozone in the upper atmosphere?
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Describe the "cycle of the CFC's"? This cycle is happening in the
upper atmosphere, however, it is caused mostly by bromine and chlorine
in the "LOWER ATMOSPHERE". DO NOT CONFUSE 'GOOD OZONE" with
"BAD OZONE"!
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How can the ozone be both "good" and "bad"?
Read "On the Trail of the Missing Ozone"
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What did Farley decide was the most important thing we can do to stop the
thinning of the ozone layer.
