1. Warm Up #18 What are some examples of nonrenewable resources?
What are some examples of renewable resources?

2. Lesson 1: Energy Resources
Ch. 4 Energy Resources
Lesson 1: Energy Resources

3. Essential Questions What are the main sources of nonrenewable energy?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using nonrenewable energy resources?
How can individuals help manage nonrenewable resources wisely?

4. How do you use energy resources? Activity
In the US today, the energy used for most daily activities is easily available at the flip of a switch or the push of a button. How do you use energy in your daily activities?
What are some instances that you use energy during a 24-hr period?
What type of energy did you use?
How long did you use it?

5. Sources of energy
Nonrenewable resources – resources that are used faster than they can be replaced by natural processes
Renewable resources – resources that can be replaced by natural processes in a relatively short amount of time

6. Nonrenewable energy resources
Fossil fuels – coal, oil, petroleum, natural gas
Depends on:
Type of organic matter
Temperature and pressure
Length of time organic matter was buried

7. Nonrenewable energy resources
Coal Formation
Oil and Natural Gas Formation

8. Advantages/disadvantages of fossil fuels
Fairly easy and direct to change energies
Relatively inexpensive and easy to transport
Disadvantages –
Limited supply
Disrupts habitats
Causes pollution

9. Nuclear energy – energy released from atomic reactions

10. Nuclear energy Advantages – Disadvantages –
relatively small amount of uranium produces large amount of energy
doesn’t pollute
Disadvantages –
uses nonrenewable resource uranium
can lead to a release of harmful radioactive substances
waste materials are highly radioactive and dangerous

11. Managing nonrenewable energy resources
93% of US energy comes from fossil fuels
More than 22% of world’s total energy used in US
Reclamation – a process in which
mined land must be recovered
with soil and replanted with
vegetation