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Period 6 Unit 5

V. **Energy Resources and Consumption** (10–15%) A. **Energy Concepts** (chapter 3) energy forms; power; units; conversions; Laws of Thermo dynamics B. **Energy Consumption** (chapter 11, 13) History Industrial Revolution; exponential growth; energy crisis Present global energy use Future energy needs C. **Fossil** **Fuel Resources and Use** (chapter 11) D. **Nuclear** **Energy** (chapter 12) E. **Hydroelectric** **Power** (chapter 13) F. **En****ergy Conservation** (chapter 13) G. **Renewable Energy** (chapter 13)
 * College Board Outline **
 * formation of coal, oil, and natural gas;
 * extraction/purification methods;
 * world reserves and global demand;
 * synfuels;
 * environmental advantages/disadvantages of sources
 * nuclear fission process;
 * nuclear fuel;
 * electricity production;
 * nuclear reactor types;
 * environmental advantages/disadvantages;
 * safety issues;
 * radiation and human health;
 * radioactive wastes;
 * nuclear fusion
 * dams;
 * flood control;
 * salmon;
 * silting;
 * other impacts
 * energy efficiency;
 * CAFE standards;
 * hybrid electric vehicles;
 * mass transit
 * solar energy;
 * solar electricity;
 * hydrogen fuel cells;
 * biomass;
 * wind energy;
 * small-scale hydroelectric;
 * ocean waves and tidal energy;
 * geothermal;
 * environmental advantages/disadvantages

** SATURDAY PREP SESSION AT CHELSEA HIGH 2/1/14 ** ** I will attach the PERMISSION SLIP for you to print ** ** THANK YOU ** SEE HOME PAGE FOR PERMISSION SLIP

**__ Weekend HW 1/25/14 __**


 * 1) Read section entitled Fossil Fuels p. 236-237, and answer review questions 1 & 2, p. 237
 * 2) Read section on Coal, p. 237-
 * 3) Create the "Comparison of Different Kinds of Coal" table on page 237 (table 11.1) in your notes. It can be organized differently but it should have the same information.
 * 4) Provide 3 reasons for why this information is important in understanding coal.
 * 5) Coal burning contributes **more** air pollutants than does burning either oil or natural gas. Such pollutants include CO2, mercury, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides and acid deposition. Identify a threat each pollutant makes to our atmosphere and or health. (nice time to make a table J )

**__CW Tues 1/26/14__** preview chapter 11 PP on coal coal pollutants

1. Complete energy calculations (on back of handout from class) 2. Please define the following terms. You'll have a quiz on these Monday 2/3/14. The format will be given definitions with a word bank. Kind of easy so no excuses for getting more than two wrong. acid depositionacid mine drainagecoalenergy densityenergy efficiencyfluidized-bed combustionfossil fuelsnatural gasoiloverburdenPeak Oilresource recoverystructural trapssubsidiessubsurface miningsurface miningsynfuels
 * Long Weekend HW 1/30/14 **

3. Complete this worksheet


 * refer to your notes and the PP for the first table
 * read How to Make Coal a Cleaner Fuel p. 242-243 and
 * complete the bottom table
 * be able to explain how scrubbers and clean coal technology "clean" coal, and be able to explain what resource recovery is.



4. Answer questions 1-4 on page 243. __**CW Monday 2/3/14**__ QUIZ review calculative questions discuss how scrubbers and clean coal technology "clean" coal, and resource recovery discuss answers to questions 1-4


 * Monday 2/3/14 HW **

1. Please read Oil and Natural Gas p. 243-244, and Exploration for Oil and Natural Gas p. 244-246. 2. Be able to explain petroleum refining (aka fractional distillation). 3. Read and mark up the attached article. Also, look more into Hubbert's curve.

**__CW Tuesday 2/4/14__** Discuss Oil and Natural Gas fractional distillation Hubbert's curve

1. Finish reading the Oil and Natural Gas section, p. 246-250. 2. Read the Case in Point on ANWR and make notes - try to form an opinion and be able to discuss it. 3. Read the section on Synfuels. Make a detailed vocab list or explanation for each of the bolded terms. 4. Explain the three env impacts of synfuels. 5. Answer questions 1-4 on p. 251.
 * Tuesday 2/4/14 HW **

SNOW DAY WEDNESDAY 2/5/14 **__CW Thursday 2/6/14__** continue coal Discuss Oil and Natural Gas fractional distillation

**Thursday 2/6/14 HW**

**__CW Friday 2/7/14__**  QUIZ - CH 11 COAL ONLY

Hubbert's curve  discuss synfuels discuss ANWR




 * Weekend HW 2/7/14 **

There will be more...here's some...

1. If you haven't already, complete the following Ch 11 Review. The bolded questions on the back are topics we haven't discussed yet so you'll need to refer to your book. The rest you should be able to complete using mostly your brain (initially) and partly your notes (after you exhaust your brain).



2. The two FRQs we started in class - try the math, parts a & b for each. I've attached the answsers to part d for the large coal fired electric power plant... Try to answer it well first, then refer to the answer possibilities.

3. Answer the questions below.


 * 1) Who are the top three countries with most proven reserves of oil?
 * 2) Where in the United States are proven oil reserves found?
 * 3) What is oil most widely used for?
 * 4) What are 5 products that are distilled from crude oil?
 * 5) What happens in a fractionation tower?
 * 6) When are the current global oil reserves projected to be depleted/exhausted?
 * 7) What are tar sands? Where are they found?
 * 8) What are oil shales? Where are they found?
 * 9) What is natural gas?
 * 10) Who are the top three countries with the greatest amounts of natural gas?
 * 11) Where in the United States can natural gas be found?
 * 12) What is natural gas most widely used for?
 * 13) What is hydrologic fracturing?

QUIZ chapter 11 Wednesday 2/12/14 Be sure you are familiar with Fluidized Bed Combustion and how __each__ pollutant is reduced thruoug this method.


 * FEBRUARY BREAK HOMEWORK 2/17/14 - 2/21/14 **

On the Friday before break I asked you to “begin reading chapter 12 and don't stop”. Here are some further details:

__ This Assignment is NEW: Nuclear Energy in the Cartoons __
 * Chapter Opener p. 259
 * Nuclear Fission p. 261-265. Answer questions 1-4 on p. 265. I’ve attached a outline for this section. Complete the table as well.
 * Pros and Cons of Nuclear Energy p. 266-268. Answer questions 1-3 on p. 268. Thoroughly examine table 12-2.
 * Safety Issues in Nuclear Power Plants p. 268-272. Answer questions 1-3 on p. 272.
 * Radioactive Wastes p. 273-278, including Case in Point: Yucca Mountain p. 275-277. Answer questions 1-3 on p. 278.
 * The Future of Nuclear Power p. 279-280. Answer question 1 on p. 280.
 * Answer Thinking About the Environment questions 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12 on p. 281.

Find and PRINT at least 5 cartoons dealing with nuclear energy. Three of them must be current, within the past five years. You may want to find older ones as well. Try to find cartoons from different perspectives.

Answer the following for each cartoon:


 * 1) How do this cartoon portray nuclear energy?
 * 2) What controversial topic regarding nuclear power is this cartoon dealing with?
 * 3) In what year was the cartoon published?







Chapter 13 Renewable Energy and Conservation

**Monday 2/24/14 HW **
 * 1) Please read Direct Solar Energy, p. 283-288, and make notes:
 * 2) passive solar energy – definition and examples
 * 3) active solar energy – definition and examples
 * 4) Solar Thermal Electric Generation – explain how electricity is produced
 * 5) Photovoltaic Cell – explain how electricity is produced
 * 6) Read Indirect Solar Energy, p, 288-293, and make notes on the three different types.
 * 7) Skim over geothermal p. 295-296, looking closely at figures 13.10 & 13.11

**__CW Tues 2/24__** Discuss above reading and questions PP on solar FRQ
 * 1) Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 on page 306.

Read: High and Low Technology Energy Solutions: <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Appropriate Energy: a Systems Perspective, p. 305 <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Review of Learning Objectives with Key Terms – last 5 bullets p. 306
 * <span style="color: #8e00ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday 2/25/14 HW **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">the first 3 paragraphs under the above heading, p. 297
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, red heading, p. 297-299
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Energy Consumption Trends and Economics, red heading, p. 299-300
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Energy Efficient Technologies, p. 300-303

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Answer Questions 9, 10, 11, 13 on p. 306, but I changed #13 a little. I pasted them all below.

9. Explain how energy conservation and efficiency can be considered “sources” of energy.

10. What has allowed energy intensity to drop for most countries since 1980, even as GDP’s have gone up?

11.What is cogeneration, and what are its advantages?

13. __Create a table__ to discuss how the alternative energy sources of biomass, wind, hydro and geothermal could have a negative effect on each of the following aspects of ecosystems:

a. Soil preservation

b. Natural water flow

c. Foods used by wild plant and animal populations

d. Preservation of the diversity of organisms found in an area