Year 11 - Geography
Reducing demand on fossil fuels
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Unit Summary
This unit teaches pupils about different energy resources, their extraction and uses. Pupils learn about the different types of energy, the factors affecting extraction and the patterns and inequalites associated with production and consumption. Pupils also learn about energy futures.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain how energy efficiency and energy conservation in transport and in the home can reduce demand for finite energy resources and reduce carbon emissions.
Key Notes
- Reducing reliance on fossil fuels presents major technical challenges.
- Energy efficiency and conservation can reduce demand and help finite energy supplies to last longer.
- Energy efficiency and energy conservation can help to reduce carbon emissions.
Vocabulary To Learn
- demand: the amount of energy that is needed to power daily activities
- efficiency: energy efficiency means using technology that needs less energy to perform the same task
- conservation: energy conservation involves changing people's behaviour in ways that mean they use less energy
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Energy efficiency and energy conservation mean the same thing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
Reducing reliance on fossil fuels presents major technical challenges. Energy efficiency and conservation can reduce demand and help finite energy supplies to last longer.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'demand'
the amount of energy that is needed to power daily activities.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Energy efficiency and energy conservation mean the same thing. Correction: In fact, energy efficiency is about using technology to do the same task but with less use of energy, while energy conservation is about changing people's behaviour so they use less energy.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Changing attitudes to unsustainable energy consumption Study Guide
- Changing oil supply and prices Study Guide
- Classification of energy – non-renewable, renewable and recyclable Study Guide
- Costs and benefits to fossil fuel alternatives Study Guide
- Developing conventional oil/gas sources in sensitive or remote areas Study Guide
- Developing unconventional oil/gas sources in sensitive or remote areas Study Guide
- Distribution of oil reserves, factors affecting growth of oil consumption Study Guide
- Energy futures – contrasting views Study Guide
- Environmental impacts of energy extraction Study Guide
- Factors affecting access to energy resources Study Guide
- Global patterns of energy use and causes of variations Study Guide
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