What do you understand by Ozone layer? Write an essay to participate in elecution compitation on importance of ozone layer.
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The sun radiates a huge variety of radiations such as ultraviolet radiations which are very harmful to the human body. It is the ozone layer which helps to absorb the ultraviolet radiation rays. It also helps to prevent them from reaching the surface of the earth. In this way, they help to save us from harmful rays. The ozone layer which is present naturally in the lower layers of the atmosphere helps in eradicating the pollutants from the surface of the earth.
Ozone is a gas which present in the stratosphere that forms a protective layer, which protects everything living on the Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays, known as ozone layer.
It saves us from harmful UV rays that can burns our skin, cause cancer, plants (leaves) to turn yellow (bleaching) and eventually kill many organisms living on the earth’s surface and in water.