Joson Anjo C. Casillan VIII-Nelson Mandela The ozone layer forms a thin shield high up in the sky. It protects life on Earth from the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays. The ozone layer is a belt of naturally occurring ozone gas that sits 9.3 to 18.6 miles (15 to 30 kilometers) above Earth and serves as a shield from the harmful ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun. If it’s too much ozone, the earth will be frozen or freeze because no sunlight can pass through Ozone layer does it change in a regular way It forms from 2 oxygen that breaks down one and forms at the oxide turning to O3 It’s made of 3 Oxygen and also known as “Ozone” Smog (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) can react to sunlight and can create ozone There are one compound that can destroy the ozone and known as chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) When the UV ray breaks the chlorine, the chlorine will attach to the ozone molecules to oxygen molecule, and when the chlorine monoxide is attached to singular oxygen, the chlorine is free and breaks as many as they can. Aerosols are the spray cans that damages the ozone There is an ozone hole that remains at south pole and north pole Because they are not affecting the sunlight and they have special atmospheric and stratospheric clouds (meaning low latitude of clouds) ozone blocks almost all of UV ray and has chance to reach at the ground Clouds blocked UV ray half of them and the ground reflected 10% of UV ray absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The ozone layer absorbs 97–99% of the Sun's medium-frequency ultraviolet light. http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://www.epa.gov/sunwise/kids/kids_ozone.html http://abctoppictures.net http://slideplayer.com