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What does the ozone layer protects us from?
UV Radiation
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What is the Ozone?
a molecule made of three oxygen atoms
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What does the ozone do?
Absorbs some of the UV rays from the sun
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Describe how we are ruining the ozone layer
Pollution from CFC's
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What does Ultraviolet Radiation cause
skin cancer
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What is infrared?
energy transfer by electromagnetic waves
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Finish the sentence- Hotter an object the more infrared radiation it ..... in a given time
emits
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Name some of the electromagnetic spectrum
radio waves, microwaves, infrared radiation, visible light
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What are electromagnetic waves?
electric and magnetic waves that travel through space
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Finish sentence- the sun emits .......................................................
all types of electromagnetic radiation
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What does the atmosphere block out?
radiation
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What does'nt the atmosphere block out?
infrared radiation
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The microwaves penetrate up to a few into food before being absorbed by .....
water molecules
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Energy from what causes the food to heat up?
microwaves
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What then happens to the heat energy
conducted or convected to other parts of the food
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What are lasers?
narrow beam of light
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Wat are digital signals?
series of pulses with 2 states
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What are the 2 states fo digital signals?
on/off
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Light can be used for what?
digital communication
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What can optical fibres do?
carry information coded on light waves ir infrared waves
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What is the Ozone?

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a molecule made of three oxygen atoms

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What does the ozone do?

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Describe how we are ruining the ozone layer

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What does Ultraviolet Radiation cause

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