Fusion Unit 3 Lesson 3
Nonrenewable Energy
Ecologist
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READING GUIDE DIRECTIONS: Use this reading guide to help you study and review textbook pages 158
through 168. Questions are numbered. Page numbers can be found following the question.
Terms (vocab) are identified by a letter.
1) Engage your Brain (Blue “Bubble”) #1. Identify. Unscrambled words are :.(pg. 159)
COAL
NATURAL GAS
URANIUM
PETROLEUM
2) Engage your Brain (Blue “Bubble”) #2. Describe. (pg. 31) Write answer below.
Where are the cars? ____IN LINE AT A GAS STATION___________
Why are they in line? ___THERE IS A FUEL (GASOLINE) SHORTAGE_________
How does the picture relate to the title of the lesson? _GASOLINE IS A NONRENEWABLE ENERGY
RESOURCE_____________________
3) Active Reading (Red “Bubble”). #3 Synthesize. (pg. 159) – make an educated guess as to meaning; then,
find the meaning in the text, fix your answer if you need to and write down the page number.
a. Fission: ____SPLITTING OF NUCLEI OF RADIOACTIVE ATOMS________ pg.___165__
b. fossil fuel ____NONRENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCE THAT FORMS FROM THE REMAINS OF
ORGANISMS THAT LIVED LONG AGO______ pg.___160
c. energy resource _____A NATURAL RESOURCE THAT HUMANS USE TO GENERATE ENERGY AND
CAN BE RENEWABLE OR NONRENEWABLE___________ pg.___160__
d. nuclear energy ______ENERGY RELEASED WHEN THE NUCLEI OF ATOMS ARE SPLIT OR
COMBINED_______ pg.___160_
4) Compare (Venn Diagram) #6. (pg. 160) One thing fossil fuels and nuclear fuel have in common is that
they are both ____NONRENEWABLE_____________.
What are fossils fuels made from? ____REMAINS OF ANCIENT ORGANISMS________
What are nuclear fuels made from? ___URANIUM, AN ORE, IS USED DURING THE PROCESS
OF FISSION_______
5) Active Reading (Red “Bubble”). #7. Identify. (pg. 161) What is the state of matter of each fossil fuel?
Petroleum = ___LIQUID________________
Natural Gas = ____GAS________________________
Coal = ______SOLID________________________
6) Petroleum and Natural Gas Formation diagram (pg. 162) Summarize the steps on how they are created.
1. ___MICROSCOPIC MARINE CIRTTERS DIE AND SETTLE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA____
2. __LAYERS OF SEDIMENT BURY THE DEAD MARINE ORGANISMS___
3. __HEAT AND PRESSURE SLOWLY CHANGE THEIR REMAINS INTO PETROLEUM &
NATURAL GAS__
4. __PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS ARE TRAPPED AND CREATE RESERVOIRS IN
PERMEABLE ROCKS_
What is a reservoir? __USUALLY REFERS TO WHERE LARGE AMOUNTS OF WATER ARE STORED,
LIKE BEHIND A DAM. CAN ALSO MEAN ANY PLACE WHERE LIQUIDS ARE STORED __
What do they have to do with petroleum? __ AN UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR OF PETROLEUM
CAN BE DRILLED TO REMOVE THAT ENERGY RESOURCE.__
7) Active Reading (Red “bubble”) #9 and Coal Formation diagram (pg. 163) Describe the 4 steps that
change peat into anthracite:
A. __SUNKEN, DECAYING SWAMP PLANTS ARE CHANGED INTO PEAT__
B. __SEDIMENTS BURY THE PEAT, INCREASING THE TEMPERATURE & PRESSURE TO
MAKE THE PEAT CHANGE INTO LIGNITE ___
C. ___INCREASING SEDIMENTS INCREASE T&P TO CHANGE LIGNITE INTO BITUMINOUS
COAL__
D. ___ANTHRACITE IS FORMED FROM BITUMINOUS COAL WHEN SEDIMENTS, TEMP &
PRSR CONTINUE TO RISE____
8) Visualize It! (Purple “bubble” #10. Coal is formed from ancient __PLANTS__ that lived in
____SWAMPS____. Natural Gas and Petroleum are formed from ___MARINE ORGANISMS__
that lived in _____OCEANS______________________________________________
9) Active Reading (Red “bubble”) #11. (pg. 164) List some uses of fossil fuels
TRANSPORTATION FUELS
HEATING FUEL
POWER PLANTS
SOURCE OF ELECTRICAL POWER
COOKING
POWER APPLIANCES
10) Visualize It! (Purple “bubble” and diagram).(pgs. 164-165). Compare the 2 diagrams and complete the
table. (The answers may be the same!)
Coal-Fired Power Plant
Nuclear Power Plant
What is the fuel?
COAL
URANIUM
The heat that is generated from
the fuel is used to create
STEAM
STEAM
Steam is used to turn or spin a
TURBINE
TURBINE
The turbine spins a
GENERATOR
GENERATOR
The generator produces
ELECTRICITY
ELECTRICITY
Three things the nuclear power plant has that the coal-fired plant
does not have
ALSO: COOLING TOWER (ALTHOUGH COAL
HAS LAKE FOR COOLING
a ___CONTROL RODS____
b __REACTOR VESSEL__
c __CONTAINMENT BUILDING_
11) Active Reading (Red “bubble”) #13. (pg. 166), and Evaluate, #15 (pg. 167). Complete the chart:
Fuel Resource
Pros
Cons
Nuclear Fuel
--LOTS OF ENERGY
--NO AIR POLLUTION – NO FUEL
BURNED
--MINING USUALLY DOES NOT HARM
ENVRIONMENT
--DANGEROUS WASTES
--RADIATION CAN BE RELEASED
--HEATED WATER MUST BE COOLED
BEFORE RELEASED INTO
ENVIRONMENT
Fossil Fuels
--CHEAP TO GET AND USE
--CAN CAUSE ACID PRECIPITATION
--COAL MINING IMPACTS
ENVIRONMENT
--OIL SPILLS
--SMOG, AIR POLLUTION
--CO2 = GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
NOTE: Water used to cool nuclear
reactors that is released to the
environment is NOT radioactive!