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Ozone Layer - What it does

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1. How does the ozone layer protect the earth from ultraviolet radiations?
2. What steps need to be taken to contain the depletion of the ozone layer?

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The expert determines what the ozone layer does. How the ozone layer protects the earth from ultraviolet radiation is determined.

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1. How does the ozone layer protect the earth from ultraviolet radiations?

Long term exposure to UV radiations is known to cause skin cancers. Ozone in the upper
stratosphere of the earth's atmosphere absorbs the harmful short wave length UV radiations
from the sun, thereby protecting the life on earth.

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