1. Where do we get our Energy from?
Aims:
Where do we get our energy from?
What is non-renewable & renewable energy?
What are the advantages & disadvantages of both?

2. What are energy resources?
A resource is anything that is of use to people. Geographers use the term to refer to the natural resources found on earth.

3. How many different types of energy can you identify?
Watch the following images & note down the different sources from which we get our energy from.

36. How many different types of energy did you identify?
Coal
Gas
Oil
Nuclear
Solar
Wind
Tidal
HEP
Geothermal
Fuel wood

37. Can you answer your lesson key questions?
Where do we get our energy from? Y/N?
What is non-renewable & renewable energy?
What are the advantages & disadvantages of both?

38. Non-renewable & Renewable Energy?
What is non-renewable energy?
Also known as fossil fuels, because they take millions of years to form. However, once they have been used up they can not be replaced.
What is renewable energy?
Energy that can be used forever

39. Can you answer your lesson key questions?
Where do we get our energy from? Y/N?
What is non-renewable & renewable energy? Y/N?
What are the advantages & disadvantages of both?

40. Renewable Energy: Advantages & Disadvantages
What are the advantages?
Clean energy (does not cause pollution)
Sustainable
Can provide power for places that are a long way from the national grid
What are the disadvantages?
More expensive than fossil fuels
Not very reliable
Power only produced when wind is blowing, sun is shining etc.
It would take thousands of wind turbines to produce enough electricity to power a city

41. Disadvantages of non-renewable energy
Opencast mining uses up large areas of countryside & causes noise & dust
Oil spills at sea kill fish, sea birds & animals
Oil spills on land pollute water supplies & can affect people’s health
Burning fossil fuels releases chemicals which cause acid rain that kills fish & trees
CO2 is released causing global warming

42. World Energy Consumption
Oil (40%)
Coal (27%)
Gas (23%)
Nuclear (8%)
HEP (2%)
Other forms of energy combined are less than 1%
Why are fossil fuels used so heavily?
Cheap to use
Easy to obtain
Can you come up with some more advantages of Non-Renewable Energy?
What do you immediately notice about these figures?

43. Can you answer your lesson key questions?
Where do we get our energy from? Y/N?
What is non-renewable & renewable energy?
What are the advantages & disadvantages of both? Y/N?

44. Energy Quiz Time! 1) True or False? & 2) Odd one Out!

45. Where do we get our energy from?
Can you answer your lesson key questions?
Where do we get our energy from? Y/N?
What is non-renewable & renewable energy?
What are the advantages & disadvantages of both? Y/N?