Year 12: April 2012

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Year 12 cover work Tuesday

Year 12

Apologies that I'm not back today, hope you are all working hard!!! Please do work below:-

Open a word doc and create a table with 2 columns and 10 rows. In column 1 write type in the questions below and in column 2 answer them.
1. What is Primary energy?
2. What is secondary energy?
3. What is another term used for renewable energy?
4. What is a renewable resource?
5. What is a non-renewable resource?
6. What is another ten for a non-renewable resource?
7. What 2 resources have to be managed carefully if considered to be renewable?
8. How can wood be managed carefully?
9. What resources are renewable and will be available no matter how much we use?
10. What are the two types of reserves? (that part of a resource that is available for use)

Save and print for Friday.

Open another doc and do the same for the questions below:-

1. Name 2 examples of energy TNC's
2.. What does OPEC stand for?
3. Name one thing OPEC does
4. Why has OPEC's power declined?
5. How many OPEC countries are there?
6. What are two ways natural gas can be transported?
7. What are TNC's?
8. What role do TNC's play in energy?
9. How many countries does BP operate in?
10. What does BP do?

Save and print. Open a final doc and answer these questions:-
1. What is biomass energy?
2. How can fuelwood spoil the env?
3. How many people die annually from burning biomass?
4. How many people globally do not have access to electricity?
5. Why are fossil fuels popular?
What is the projected average annual growth 2007-2030 for
coal
oil
gas
nuclear
HEP
Biomass
other renewable
6. What 4 environmental problems are created by burning fossil fuels?
7. List 5 problems of Acid rain in named places
8. What 4 impacts does mining fossil fuels have on the env? Include named egg's.
9. What is your example of an oil drilling accident, what were the impacts?
10. What is your example of a oil transport accident, what were the impacts?

Save and print for Friday please.

Saturday 21 April 2012

Shale Gas

Use these links and any others you can find on search engines, to gain an understanding of what shale gas is, how it is extracted and what the potential gains and risks are. (What is it? How is it extracted? What are the potential benefits? What are the potential risks?)

http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/meeting_energy/oil_gas/shale_gas/shale_gas.aspx

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/17/shale-gas-fracking-uk

Friday 20 April 2012

Biomass Reading

http://www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk/portal/page?_pageid=76,15049&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

http://www.greenwisebusiness.co.uk/news/supply-chain-problems-threaten-to-disrupt-uk-biomass-plans-897.aspx

http://www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk/portal/page?_pageid=76,15068&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Tuesday 17 April 2012

China and air pollution reading

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-coal-and-clean-air-coexist-china

Thursday 12 April 2012

Revision session 5 River landforms

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?video_id=thxbH2YDjiQ

On this blog you will find a list of all the landforms you are required to know. You need a fair amount of detail for each landform and you must include key terms in your explanations. To help you with this, I have gone through each landform and listed all the terms I feel you should be using. Write your answers and then check you have included all the terms I have mentioned. These questions are very straight forward and it is your chance to pick up full marks - but you have to learn your stuff!