Ozone in the Upper Atmosphere Makes Life on Earth Possible [edit]. Ozone is a molecule composed of three oxygen atoms, (O 3). Ozone in the upper atmosphere absorbs high energy ultraviolet radiation (UV) coming from the Sun. This protects living things on Earth's surface from the Sun's most harmful rays.
In earth science, erosion is the action of exogenic processes (such as water flow or wind) which remove soil and rock from one location on the Earth's crust, then transport it to another location where it is deposited. Eroded sediment may be transported just a few millimetres, or for thousands of kilometres.
Erosion simply means wearing away. However, it is most often used used in a geological sense, when it means the movement of rock and mineral grains from one place to another, â¦ and can also describe how beaches change shape. mountain is a sharpened peak formed by the glacial actions of three cirques on a mountaintop. Since we know that a cirque is a bowl-shaped basin formed by EROSION and a moun â¦ tain horn is formed by three CIRQUES it becomes clear that mountain horns are formed by erosion. 5 people found this useful.