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This unit focuses energy sources used for electricity production. Students analyze the processes used in various energy transformations and critique the advantages, disadvantages, impact on society, and impact on the environment.
Misconceptions:
Students may think energy resources and energy are the same, rather than energy resulting from the energy source.
Key Content Vocabulary:
Environment – the totality of surrounding conditions
Society – an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
Sustainability – ability of a system to remain in existence - maintain; environmental sustainability can be defined as a healthy ecosystem that is productive and renewable
Related Vocabulary:
Abundance
Advantage
Biofuels
Chemical
Disadvantage
Fossil fuel
Geothermal
Hydroelectric
Inexhaustible/indefinite
Natural gas
Nonrenewable
Nuclear
Oil
Pollution
Radiant
Renewable
Solar
Water
Wind
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