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Question 1

What was the point of the energy map?

Answer 1

The point of the map is to show how much energy is in each country and where is in in each of them.

Question 2

Why does Australia only have one main place with energy in the map?

Answer 2

Australia only has energy in one place as most of the population lives along the coast and have a lot of land but don’t use it for living.

Question 3

What type of energy does Canda mostly use?

Answer 3

Top three energy sources:

1) Hydro
2) fuel oil
3) Wind

Question 4

Canada is the second largest consumer of energy…why?

Answer 4

1) we use a lot of heat as we are cold and ac as we are far from the equator during summer
2) natural resource development/resource extraction
3) we drive a lot and were designed with wide roads for travelling
4) energy is relatively cheap in Canada so we tend to waste it

Question 5

What are the two main sources of energy? What sources do they use?

Answer 5

Conventional(common):

• oil
• natural gas
• coal
• hydro
• nuclear energy

Alternate (less common):

• solar
• wind
• hydrogen
• biomass

Question 6

What are some types of Biomass?

Answer 6

• wood fuel
• rubbish
• alchohol fuels
• crops
• landfill gas

Question 7

What are some energy facts?

Answer 7

most electricity is produced with a rotating generator that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Question 8

What are the different forms of energy produced?

Answer 8

Hydroelectric (using moving water)
Thermal Electric (burning coal, oil, and natural gas to create expanding steam)
Nuclear Electric (expanded steam created by nuclear fission)

Question 9

What does NIMBY?

Answer 9

not in my back yard

Question 10

What are the 3 top largest reserves?

Answer 10

Venezuela (298 barrels)
Saudi Arabia (265 barrels)-sells the most
Alberta/Canada (170 barrels)- Canada is ranked third for largest reserves

Question 11

What are 3 reasons to continue to extract oil from oil sands?

Answer 11

1) reserves are worth money-14 trillion dollars
2) energy security- we can control our energy
3) no more easy oil

Question 12

Ease of extraction

Answer 12

1) onshore liquid oil-faster and cheaper
2) shallow water liquid oil
3) onshore heavy oil and oil sands
4) ultra deep water oil
5) Polar oil
6) shale oil- slower and more expensive

Question 13

Where are Canadas oil deposits?

Answer 13

1) Alberta(69)
2) Saskatchewan(16)
3) Newfoundland and Labrador(11)

Question 14

When did oil sands become possible?

Answer 14

2003 before 2003 Canada only had 0.8% of world oil preserves now they are top three in the the world for oil reserves

Question 15

Where are Albertas oil sands area?

Answer 15

Fort McMurray- city
Peace River- river
Cold lake- lake

Question 16

What are the four components of oil sands?

Answer 16

1) water
2) sand
3) clay
4) bitumen

Question 17

What are two environmental concerns with oil sands?

Answer 17

1) oil sands account for 6.5% of ghg emissions

2) tailing ponds occupy 172km^2 of Alberta

Question 18

What is bull frog power?

Answer 18

Bull frog power is a company that gives green energy to homes and businesses. The purpose of it is to create a sustainable community and what they do is measure how big your property is, replaces it with green energy made by wind, solar and much more to make it more environmentally friendly. The more people that use it the more a community becomes sustainable.

Question 19

Who are the largest 5 GHG emitters?

Answer 19

1) china
2) united states
3) European union
4) india
5) Russian federation

Question 20

What are the primary energy productions methods and their percentages?

Answer 20

crude oil- 44%
hydro- 8%
coal- 9%
nuclear- 2%
naturel gases- 37%

Question 21

What type of energy does ontario mostly use?

Answer 21

nuclear

Question 22

what is cap and trade?

Answer 22

Is when the government makes a limit to gas emissions and different company works together to trade allowances. It os better than individual limit because it gives companies a chance to trade and one will make money as the other saves. It a win win

Question 23

What is the purpose of trailing ponds?

Answer 23

the purpose is to bring all excess toxic oil water to the tailing ponds so they aren’t putting them in rivers and oceans

Question 24

What is the problem with tailing ponds?

Answer 24

birds are seeing the shimmer in the water and think they are fish and so when they drop down they get oil on there wings and get heavy and drown. it also leaks into the ground

Question 25

How is water used to extract oil from sand?

Answer 25

oil floats on water so they use water to separate the oil from the sands.

Question 26

Why do people who live near both these energy projects not want them (NIMBY- “Not in my back yard”)

Answer 26

oil sands: it a big whole instead of trees, it is not something that you want to see
turbines: they are big, noisy, can impact the cost of the house, birds being killed

Question 27

Explain the R/P ratio- what the letters stand for, what the calculation means, and why it is an useful term to understand.

Answer 27

R means reserves- how much of the resource in on land
P means production- how much the resource is being taken from the ground each year
the calculation shows how many years we will have with the resource before it’s gone. This is good so we always know the stages of our resources and if we need to be more carful and save more.

Question 28

Do we need to save resources for the future? Which viewpoint do you agree with? Record three arguments that support your view.

Answer 28

yes I do for the three following reasons

1) we need them to have a sustainable environment if we waste now we wont be able to create certain things
2) the future generations wont have the same opportunities that we have had
3) our over use with some resources is causing negative environmental problems

Question 29

What are the four sectors of energy use in Canada in order from greatest to least use (with percentages)? What are the projected energy use numbers based on (3 things)?

Answer 29

industrial, transportation, residential, commercial and institutional. It is changed by population size change, the rate of economic growth, and how we use energy