A Red Card for Fossil Fuels

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Complete your paragraph from last lesson explaining what are the best
and worst ways to generate electricity.

Next, fill in this table with the best and worst ways to generate electricity

Good ways to generate electricity Bad ways to generate electricity

 Climate Change
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 A Red Card for Fossil Fuels?
Why are they called fossil fuels?

Becausetheyhave been formed

from thefossilizedremains of
prehistoric plants and
animals.Fossil fuelsare a non
renewable energy source
sincetheytake millions of
years to form. This means they
are finite (limited in supply).

Task 1 Make a Graph from this Challenge 1

data:
Where does the world get its
Energy?
Coal 25%. Oil 35%. Gas 21%.
Nuclear 6%. Hydro 2%. Other
renewables 11%
Think back to last lesson.
Task 2 - Which fossil fuel do we How does this information
depend on most? Can you about global energy compare
explain why? to the UK? Give reasons and
evidence to support your
findings.
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Oil (Crude Oil) is the most important and valuable of the all fossil Task 3
fuels. It is often used to generate electricity but it is also crucial Identify 10 ways you used Oil
to transport as its used to create petrol and diesel. It also has today?
other often surprising and important uses.

Oil is also used in all these products; Challenge 2

At school - rulers, crayons, ink and printer cartridges, glue. Imagine the UK has banned
For your health: coatings for pills, contact lenses and creams. the use of crude oil and oil
In the home:Clothing, fabrics, nail polish, deodorants, shampoo, based products.
paint, upholstery and carpets, detergents for washing up and
laundry, dry-cleaning fluid, mobile phones, tablets, laptops. How would your life change
Shopping:shopping bags, credit cards, egg cartons, plastic milk
bottles. 1) In one week from now?
Cooking:non-stick pans, cling film, storage containers. 2) In one year from now?
Building: pipes, insulating material, paint.
On the move: petrol and diesel for cars and lorries, emergency Scary Fact If everyone in
services and trains, asphalt road surfaces. the world used Oil at the
Farming and Gardening: fertilisers, pesticides. same rate as people in the
USA it could run out in 8
Years.
What are GHGs?
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Using Fossil Fuels as an energy Task 4 Challenge 3

source can create problems and For each activity consider Add additional activities
damage. what damage could be caused. and suggestions of damage.
 Homework
When fossil fuels are
burned, a gas called
carbon dioxide is
released into the
atmosphere. This table
shows the amount of
carbon dioxide in the
air in different years.
Follow the instructions
to turn these figures
into a line on the graph
below. The graph
already has a line
on it showing the
average global
temperature.
1) What has happened
to the amount of
Carbon Dioxide in the
air?

2) What link can you

see between the annual
global temperature rise
and carbon dioxide?

Challenge

What do you think has

caused this link to
develop?
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D

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Fossil Fuels give off carbon dioxide when they
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burn. This is a greenhouse gas which prevents
heat escaping the earth. Without any Carbon
Dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere the
earth would get very cold and we would not be
able to survive. However the level of carbon
Dioxide has been rising ever since the
industrial revolution 200 years ago and it
rising very rapidly now. This is causing Global
Warming through a process called the
Enhanced Greenhouse effect. Its also causing
climate change which means as the global
temperature rises some places will have more
floods and storms and other areas more
Task 5. Summarise in no more
than ten words the viewpoint on
causes or effects of global
warming outlined in each extract
Challenge 4 + 5
4. Why do you think experts
cant agree about the causes
or effects of global warming?
5 Why might some groups of
people, want to argue that
global warming is just a natural
process?
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Damage to
Questions to Discuss the
Environment
What are the most significant effects of
using fossil fuels?

What will be the most significant effect

of the rising cost and expense of fossil
fuels? Problems
Global Problems
Warming with Fossil with Supply
A rise in the price of oil will normally lead Fuels
to a rise in the price of food, can you
explain why?

Why is oil and access to oil often a source

of conflict?
Cost and
Expense
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