EPA 608 Core Exam with 100% Correct Answers 2023/2024

EPA 608 Core Exam Where is the stratosphere? - Correct answer-10 to 30 miles Where is ozone located? - Correct answer-stratosphere What does an ozone molecule consist of? - Correct answer-3 oxygen atoms The ozone layer protects us from... - Correct answer-ultraviolet radiation The ozone layer helps to maintain... - Correct answer-stable earth temperatures Depletion of ozone causes... - Correct answer-crop loss, eye disease, skin cancer, reduced marine life, deforestation, increased ground level ozone. What type of refrigerants, when released into the atmosphere, cause ozone depletion? - Correct answer-cfcs and hcfcs What in refrigerants causes ozone depletion? - Correct answer-chlorine What compound is formed when chlorine meets ozone? - Correct answer-chlorine monoxide How many ozone molecules can be destroyed by one chlorine atom? - Correct answer- 100,000 The rise in the amount of chlorine measured in the stratosphere over the past twenty years matches the rise in... - Correct answer-flourine The chlorine in CFCs will break down in water(true/false). - Correct answer-false The chlorine in CFCs will break down into compounds that will dissolve in water(true/false). - Correct answer-false What does ODP stand for? - Correct answer-ozone depletion potential HFCs have a higher ODP than CFCs (true/false). - Correct answer-false Which refrigerant type has no ODP? - Correct answer-HFCs What chemicals make up CFCs? - Correct answer-chlorine flourine carbon What chemicals make up HCFCs? - Correct answer-hydrogen chlorine fluorine carbon What chemicals make up HFCs? - Correct answer-hydrogen fluorine carbon Give examples of CFCs? - Correct answer-r-11, 12, 500 Give examples of HCFCs? - Correct answer-r-22, 123 Give examples of HFCs? - Correct answer-r-134a