Fact-Finding Team
Ozone Layer
The mission of your group is to
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Find the answers to the questions listed below.You may use books, periodical resources, the Internet or the Antarctica: 90 Degrees South video titled Winter? Summer? How Can You Tell? about the weather and seasons of the continent.
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Make a presentation of your findings to the class. You may use whatever media you choose for your presentation. Think about how YOU learn best.
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Make a handout of the important findings of your group to distribute to the rest of the class.Be sure to cite your sources.
Questions -- Ozone Layer
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What is ozone?
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What is the change in the ozone between Antarctica's summer and winter?
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What causes this damage?
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What are CFC's?
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What produces them?
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How do we know that natural sources aren't responsible for the depletion we have recorded in the ozone?
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What effect would less ozone layer have on the penguins? On us?
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Is the ozone layer recovering?
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How do we, in our city, contribute to the damage and health of the ozone layer?
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What conclusions can you draw?
Resources
The Ozone Hole Tour
http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/
British Antarctic Survey Ozone
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/jds/ozone
Earth Observatory (Pictures of the ozone hole in 2000) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/
images.php3?img_id=4384
Ozone Layer
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0837214.html
Frequently Asked Questions about Ozone
http://www.al.noaa.gov/WWWHD/pubdocs/Assessment98/faq6.html
Cool Antarctica
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/
science/ozone_hole.htm
Record Setting Ozone Hole
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast08sep_1.htm
Origins Antarctica
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/fieldnotes/1_3spole2.html
Penguins (You have to scroll past the penguins.)
http://zooish.com/Penguins.htm
Ozone hole over Antarctica has shrunk, split in two
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/10/10012002/ap_48576.asp
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