IPC Unit 7 Energy Resources

During this Unit

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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