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8) Consuming Energy Resources Flashcards

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What are the 3 main categories of energy resources?

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Renewable
Non-renewable
Recyclable

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What are non-renewable energy sources?

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Sources which are not sustainable and cannot be used at the current rate forever

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What are examples of non-renewable energy sources?

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Fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)

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What are renewable energy sources?

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Sources that are sustainable and can be reused forever

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What are examples of renewable energy sources?

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Solar
Wind
HEP

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What are recyclable energy sources?

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Sources created by recycling waste produced by humans to create more energy

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What are examples of recyclable energy sources?

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Nuclear fuel

Biofuels

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What are environmental impacts of mining and drilling for energy sources?

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Deforestation
Oil spills
Greenhouse gas emissions
Landscape scarring

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What is landscape scarring?

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Removing everything on top of a coalfield to then dig the coal

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What type of mining is landscape scarring?

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Surface mining

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What were effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010?

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4.9 million barrels leaked into Gulf of Mexico

82,000 birds and 26,000 marine mammals injured or killed

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What are impacts of renewable energy on the landscape?

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HEP flooding

Land clearing for turbines or solar panels

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What are negatives of solar panels?

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Habitats destroyed to make space

Reflected heat can disturb animals

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What are factors that affect access to energy resources?

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Economic factors
Technological factors
Geological factors
Political factors
Geographic factors
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What economic factors affect access to energy resources?

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Some locations are more expensive to extract
More expensive to dig under oceans
Lots of countries have to import oil and prices often change

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What technological factors affect access to energy resources?

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Fracking is difficult
Some countries lack the educated population
Some countries lack the infrastructure to mine

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What geological factors affect access to energy resources?

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Fossil fuels are in limited supply
Some countries have lots of oil and some have none
Solar and wind power are impractical if there is a lack of wind or sunlight

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What political factors affect access to energy resources?

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Lack of institutions and war can stop development

International agreemenets limit the burning of fossil fuels

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What geographic factors affect access to energy resources?

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Wind energy is only viable for countries with lots of wind
HEP isn’t feasible for flat countries
Harder to dig under impermeable rocks

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What is electricity produced in?

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Gigawatt hours (GWh)

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Which country produces the most electricty in the world?

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China (7.1 million GWh)

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Why does energy have to be generated locally in LICs?

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Lack of national grids of energy infrastructures

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Which country consumes the most energy?

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China (24%)

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24
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What do LICs often use to generate energy?

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Biomass

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25
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Where are most of the world’s oil reserves found?

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The Middle East

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26
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What do oil reserves focus on?

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Which oil is physically located in a country

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27
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What does oil production focus on?

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Whether oil is extracted or not

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28
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What are opil reserves also known as?

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Recoverable oil

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29
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What factors affect oil supplies and prices?

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Economic

International relations

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30
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How do economic factors affect oil supplies and prices?

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Booms in economy cause prices to rise
Oil prices fall in recessions
Organisation OPEC works together to determine oil prices

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What is OPEC?

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A group of oil-producing countries who work together to determine the oil price

32
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How do international relations affect oil supplies and prices?

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Lots of oil is located in the Middle East
Historically these countries are involved in conflicts which damages oil production infrastructure
Bad relations with oil-producing countries increases oil prices

33
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What are countries and companies trying to do as the demand for energy rises?

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Extract oil and gas from harder to access locations

34
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What are difficult to access locations known as?

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‘Isolated’ or ‘Ecologically-sensitive’

35
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What are benefits of extracting more resources?

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Improves people’s standard of living
‘Energy miles’ could be reduced
Can create jobs in the Amazon/ Arctic

36
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What are costs of exploiting isolated locations for energy?

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Wildlife will be disturbed
Marine life and corals can be destroyed
Ice cores can be destroyed
Pollultion from extracting raw materials

37
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What are unconventional ways of extracting oil and gas?

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Fracking for shale ags

Extracting oil from tar sands

38
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What do tar sands contain that can be turned into oil?

39
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How is shale gas extracted?

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Fracking shale rocks

40
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What is the process of fracking?

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Compressed water is forced into rocks, releasing gas

41
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What are disadvantages of fracking?

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Can cause mini earthquakes
Can pollute water supplies
Land needs to be cleared

42
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How are tar sands mined?

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Landscape scarring (surface mining)

43
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Which country has the largest shale gas reserves?

44
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What are 2 key methods of conserving energy?

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Energy efficiency

Energy conservation

45
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How is technology increasing fossil fuel use efficiency?

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Hybrid and electric vehicles
UK has banned petrol cars from 2035
Autonomous vehicles prevent constant braking and accelerating

46
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How does demand reduction increase energy efficiency?

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Public transport and walking

Encouraging buying local goods reduces food miles

47
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How does designing homes and offices increase energy efficiency?

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Proper insulation reduces heat lost

Solar panels or mini wind turbines provide renewable energy

48
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How does sustainable transport increase energy efficiency?

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Public transport lowers individuals’ carbon footprints

Electric cars emit less greenhouse gas

49
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How much lower are emissions from electric vehicles than petrol vehicles?

50
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What are 3 advantages of reducing fossil fuel use?

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Better energy security
Lower carbon footprints
More resilient energy supplies

51
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How does reducing fossil fuel use mean better energy security?

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Renewable energy sources are located in the country consuming the energy
Improves countries’ control over thie rown destiny

52
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What is a peron’s carbo footprint?

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An indicator of how many greenhouse gases their activities produce

53
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What is a benefit of using more resilient energy supplies?

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A diaster harming one source of energy will not destroy a nation’s ability to produce energy

54
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What are advantages of solar energy?

55
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What are disadvantages of solar energy?

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Requires sunlight

56
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What are advantages of biofuels?

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Renewable and sustainable
More reliable than wind and solar
Can be amde from waste products

57
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What are disadvantages of biofuels?

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Deforestation

Growing biomass needs lots of water

58
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What are advantages of HEP?

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Renewable

More relaible than wind and solar

59
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What are disadvantages of HEP?

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Dams often change the paths of river

Flooding harms biodiversity

60
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What are advantages of wind power?

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What are disadvantages of wind power?

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Unreliable (needs wind)

Deforestation for wind farms

62
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What are advantages of hydrogen fuel?

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Only waste product is water

63
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What are disadvantages of hydrogen fuel cells?

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Not as popular as scientists had hoped

Hydrogen is flammable and very dangerous

64
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What do TNCs think about the future of energy?

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Focus on maximising profits
Will only change behaviour if forced too
Using fossil fuels is cheapest

65
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What do TNCs favour for the future of energy?

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Business as usual

66
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What do environmental groups think about the future of energy?

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Their only focus is to preserve wildlife and the environment

67
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What do environmental groups favour for the future of energy?

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A move to sustainability

68
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What do climate scientists think about the future of energy?

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Would encourage a move to sustainability

Research is not changing consumers’ behaviour

69
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What does Malthus think about the future of energy?

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The Earth’s population will get too big that the Earth cannot produce enough food

70
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What does Boserup think about the future of energy?

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Humans will always find a way to generate enough resources

71
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What do governments favour for the future of energy?

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Business as usual

72
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What are the 2 main views for the future of energy?

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Business as usual

Become more sustainable

73
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How can consumers effect the future of energy?

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Options to buy sustainable clothing

74
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How can education lead people to reduce their carbon footprint?

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GCSE Bio and GEO teach about climate change

75
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How does rising wealth and affluence affect people’s attitudes to energy?

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Richer people can afford sustainable products

Richer countries can invest in public transport and infrastructure

76
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How do environmental concerns affect people’s attitudes to energy?

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More extreme weather events may cause people to change their behaviour

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