Consuming Energy Resources Paper 3

Question 1

Business and usual

Answer 1

Everything carries on normal. We are getting most of our energy from fossil fuels and do not increase the use of renewable energy sources

Question 2

Move to sustainability

Answer 2

We reduce the amount of fossil fuels we use and increase our use of renewable energy sources.

Question 3

Affluence

Answer 3

Wealth

Question 4

Food miles

Answer 4

How far food has to travel to where it is consumed

Question 5

Kuznets curve

Answer 5

This is a concept which states that people now realise that greater care is needed to stop polluting and damaging the Earth.

Question 6

Ecological footprints

Answer 6

This is measured in global hectares and shows the amount of land and water required to produce resources for each country.

Question 7

Sustainable development

Answer 7

This meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Question 8

Tar sands

Answer 8

These occur naturally and are a mixture of sand, clay and water, and a very dense sticky form of petroleum called bitumen.

Question 9

Shale gas

Answer 9

natural gas that is trapped underground in shale rock. It can only be extracted using fracking.

Question 10

Energy efficiency

Answer 10

is providing the same service but using less energy

Question 11

Energy conservation

Answer 11

Energy conservation is about not using as much energy/changing our behaviours

Question 12

The Green deal

Answer 12

The Green Deal helps you make energy-saving improvements to your home and to find the best way to pay for them

Question 13

Non-renewable

Answer 13

Can’t be remade, being used up, once gone they are gone such as coal, oil and gas. Together these are known as fossil fuels.

Question 14

Renewable

Answer 14

These will never run out and can be used over and over again e.g. wind power, solar power, HEP. They are infinite resources

Question 15

Recyclable

Answer 15

Can be reused, so will last into the future.

Question 16

Open cast coal mining

Answer 16

a surface mining technique that extracts minerals from an open pit in the ground

Question 17

Oil drilling

Answer 17

The process by which tubing is bored through the Earth’s surface and a well is established

Question 18

Accessibility

Answer 18

The ease with which you can get to a place.

Question 19

Energy poor

Answer 19

People who lack electricity of the money to pay for it

Question 20

Fracking

Answer 20

Water is blasted into rock fractures under pressure.

Question 21

Black gold

Answer 21

A term used for oil, as it is regarded as such a valuable commodity

Question 22

Peak oil

Answer 22

The theoretical point at which half of the known reserves of oil in the world have been used