7U4L4b Nonrenewable Resources

7U4L4b Nonrenewable Resources

What are nonrenewable energy resources?

• Energy resources which do not naturally renew or replenish themselves

• Energy resources that get used up

Multiple Choice

What does non-renewable mean?

• Something that lasts forever

• Something that can be renewed

• Something that cannot be replaced quickly

Multiple Choice

An energy resource that is only available in a limited amount.

• waste energy

• renewable energy

• nonrenewable energy

• potential energy

What do we mean by Advantages or Disadvantages?

• Advantage is a good quality or something that makes it better than other options

• Disadvantage is a bad quality or something that makes it worse than other options

Multiple Choice

Renewable resources are generally "clean" meaning they do not pollute. Is this and advantage or disadvantage?

• advantage (benefit)

• disadvantage (problem)

Multiple Choice

What is one advantage of wind energy out of the choices below?

• Turbines are very expensive

• Wind turbines only create air pollution

• Wind turbines are inexpensive

Fossil Fuels

• Include Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas

• Formed when layers of buried plant, gases, and animals are exposed to intense heat and pressure over a long period of time. (millions of years!)

• Currently the world's primary energy source

Multiple Choice

Fossil Fuels are made

• from the remains of once living things (plants and animals).

• by digging up dinosaur bones.

• when plants are harvested.

• when trees are burned for heat.

Coal

• Fossilized Carbon

• It is combustable (it burns)

• We get it by mining

• Occurs in layers call coal seams

• Burned to produce heat or electricity

Advantages of Coal

• Inexpensive

• Reduces our dependance on oil

• Creates a lot of jobs

Disadvantages of Coal

• Environmental impacts from burning (acid rain and increased greenhouse gases)

• Impact of mining on land (destroys the area that is mined)

• Impact on miners health (lung diseases)

Multiple Choice

Burning coal can cause what environmental problem?

• erosion

• acid rain

• deforestation

• loss of habitats

Multiple Choice

___________________ are fuels made from the remains of ancient organisms.

• fossil fuels

• waste energy

• renewable energy

• nuclear energy

Multiple Choice

What conditions are needed to form coal?

• Heat and pressure and time

• Sea or Ocean

• Oxygen

• Cool and moist

Multiple Choice

Only one of the following is from the advantages of coal:

• Release impurities into air when burned

• Carbon is released into the atmosphere which contributes to climate change

• Economic costs are low

• Carbon is released into the atmosphere which contributes to climate change

Oil

• Also known as petroleum or crude oil

• Thick black liquid

• Composed mostly of hydrogen and carbon (hydrocarbons)

• Found in reservoirs in the rock and extracted by drilling

• Formed from the remains of ocean phytoplankton compressed over millions of years!

Advantages of Oil

• A small amount produces a lot of energy

• Easy to transport

• Easy to produce

• Constant, reliable resource for energy

Disadvantages of Oil

• Emits greenhouse gases when burned

• Spills cause land and water pollution

• Harmful emissions from power plants can make people sick

Multiple Choice

Formed from the remains of ocean-dwelling phytoplankton that died 50-150 million years ago.

• Coal

• Natural gas

• Petroleum

• Stones

Multiple Choice

Petroleum Releases carbon dioxide into atmosphere.

TRUE or FALSE?

• TRUE

• FALSE

Natural Gas

• Found deep in the earth and drilled to extract

• Flammable, odorless, colorless

• Made of methane and other hydrocarbons

• Mostly used to heat homes

Advantages of Natural Gas

• Less damage to the environment than coal and oil

• More abundant than coal and oil

• Cheaper than coal and oil

Disadvantages of Natural Gas

• Gas leaks are dangerous and can cause explosions

• Expensive to distribute for safety reasons

• Burning creates greenhouse gases

Fracking

• A technique to get gas out of rock

• The drilling part of the process is similar to drilling for oil

• A high pressure water mixture is pumped into the rock to break it up and release the gas inside

• This has contributed to earthquakes in the areas that it has been done a lot

Multiple Choice

Natural gas contain 80 to 95 percent of.........?

• Butane

• Ethane

• Methane

• propane

Multiple Choice

What do you call the process of drilling and injecting fluid into a ground at a high pressure in order to break or fracture the shale rocks to release natural gas inside?

• Drilling

• Fracking

• Perforation

• Sedimentation

Multiple Choice

Most natural gas is used to ______________.

• power cars

• to run power plants

• heat homes

• create electricity

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a disadvantage of fracking?

• Causes water pollution

• Millions of gallons are wasted during drilling

• Unhealthy for workers

• Creates job opportunities

Nuclear

• Energy is generated during nuclear fission

• This energy is used to boil water, and the steam turns a turbine to create electricity.

• Uses nuclear materials - uranium & plutonium

Advantages of Nuclear

• Very low pollution

• Very controllable and reliable

• Low cost to produce electricity

• Very little material is needed to create a lot of energy

• Energy is easily transported

Disadvantages of Nuclear

• Expensive to build the plant and purchase fuel

• Accidents at plants are costly and dangerous

• High cost to dispose of radioactive waste

Multiple Choice

Nuclear energy uses _____ to turn turbines to power a generator.

• wind
• water
• steam
• solar

Multiple Choice

Last Question! Nuclear Power is -

• Renewable

• Non-renewable

Awesome Job!

Time to write your vocab words!

Nonrenewable Resources Vocabulary

• advantage - a good quality or something that makes it better than other options

• coal - a solid energy resource (fossil fuel) produced from plant remains.

• disadvantage - a bad quality or something that makes it worse than other options

• fossil fuel - a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.

• fracking - the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside

Nonrenewable Resources Vocabulary

• natural gas - a flammable gas (fossil fuel) that occurs naturally underground.

• energy conservation - to reduce the amount of energy or energy resources used.

• nonrenewable energy resource - resources that exist in limited supply and are used up faster than they can be replaced.

• nuclear - energy produced by atomic reactions through splitting the nucleus of an atom.

• oil - an energy resource (fossil fuel) formed from the remains of small marine plants and animals buried under heat and pressure.