13-2 The Ozone Shield
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13-2 The Ozone Shield
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A. Chemicals that Cause Ozone Depletion
• 1. The ozone layer is an area in the stratosphere where ozone is highly concentrated.
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A. Chemicals that Cause Ozone Depletion
• 2. Ozone is a molecule made of 3 oxygen atoms (O3) and absorbs ultraviolet (UV) rays that can harm living cells.
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A. Chemicals that Cause Ozone Depletion
• 3. Human-made chemicals called chloroflurorocarbons (CFC’s) are damaging the ozone layer.
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A. Chemicals that Cause Ozone Depletion
• 4. CFC’s are inexpensive to make and used in items such as coolants, paint, and deodorant.
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A. Chemicals that Cause Ozone Depletion
• 5. On the earths surface, CFC’s are stable. In the atmosphere CFC’s break apart.
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A. Chemicals that Cause Ozone Depletion
• 6. The chlorine atoms from CFC’s breakdown ozone in the stratosphere.
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A. Chemicals that Cause Ozone Depletion
• 7. Estimates show that 1 chlorine atom can break down up to 100,000 ozone molecules.
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B. The Ozone Hole
• 1. A thinning of stratospheric ozone that occurs over the poles during the spring.
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B. The Ozone Hole
• 2. In 1985, scientists in Antarctica found the ozone layer over the south pole was thinned by 50-90%.
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B. The Ozone Hole
• 3. Scientists and governments have been working together world wide and the ozone in the stratosphere has stopped declining.
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C. How Does the Ozone Hole Form?
• 1. During the dark polar winter, winds over Antarctica (called the polar vortex), isolate cold air from warm air.
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C. How Does the Ozone Hole Form?
• 2. When air in the vortex falls below -80°C clouds made of water and nitric acid, called polar stratospheric clouds, start to form.
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C. How Does the Ozone Hole Form?
• 3. CFC’s enter the clouds and are broken down into chlorine atoms that combine with UV rays and for ozone holes that last several months.
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D. Effects of Ozone on Living Things
• 1. ↓Ozone= ↑ UV Radiation• 2. 2. UV damages DNA, which can lead to skin
cancer.
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D. Effects of Ozone on Living Things
• 3. UV kills phytoplankton which disrupts aquatic food chains and increases CO2 in the atmosphere.
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D. Effects of Ozone on Living Things
• 4. UV interferes with photosynthesis, damaging plant life.
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E. Protecting the Ozone Layer
• 1. 1987: Group of nations met in Canada and formed the Montreal Protocol to limit production of CFC’s.
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E. Protecting the Ozone Layer
• 2. A 2010 study showed that many ozone-depleting Substances (ODS) have been phased out.
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E. Protecting the Ozone Layer
• 3. Scientists are still searching for ways to protect the ozone layer because CFC’s may remain active in the atmosphere for 60-120 years.