Vocabulary
resource
renewable resource
nonrenewable resource
fossil fuel
solar energy
hydroelectric
geothermal
biomass
10 - Protecting Earth's Resources
Lessons
What are renewable energy resources?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using solar and wind energy?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using hydroelectricity, nuclear, geothermal, and biomass energy?
What are other resources?
Can resources be conserved?
Lesson 1, What are renewable energy resources?
What is a resource?
What are examples of renewable resources?
What are examples of nonrenewable resources?
How is coal made?
What are fossil fuels?
How are oil and natural gas obtained?
What is crude oil?
What is an advantage of using fossil fuels?
What are disadvantages of using fossil fuels?
What solutions to the problem of fossil fuel use?
Lesson 2A, What are the advantages and disadvantages of using solar and wind energy?
Essential Questions
What are renewable resources?
What are nonrenewable resources?
How is solar energy created?
What is an advantage of using solar energy?
What is a disadvantage of using solar energy?
How is wind energy created?
What is an advantage of using wind energy?
What is a disadvantage of using wind energy?
What is a turbine?
What is a generator?
Turbine
Generator
Lesson 2B, What are the advantages and disadvantages of using hydroelectricity, nuclear, geothermal, and biomass energy?
How is hydroelectricity created?
What must be created in order to use moving water as a resource?
What is an advantage of using water energy?
What is a disadvantage of using water energy?
How is nuclear energy created?
What are advantages and disadvantages of using nuclear energy?
How is geothermal energy used?
What are advantages and disadvantages of using geothermal energy?
How is biomass energy used?
What are advantages and disadvantages of using biomass energy?
Lesson 3, What are other resources?
What are some mineral resources?
How is iron used?
How are gypsum and mica used?
How is gravel used?
What kind of resource are minerals?
What makes air renewable?
What makes soil renewable?
What makes water renewable?
What types of resources are air, soil, and water?
How can these resources last longer?
Lesson 4, Can resources be conserved?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
How did it change how people used resources?
What are some negative effects of the Industrial Revolution?
What is the purpose of conservation laws?
How have companies observed conservation laws?
How else can resources be conserved?
What new products result from recycled paper?
What new products result from recycled plastic?
What effect does recycling have?
What new products result from recycled bottles?
