Where we’re going . . .
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Fossil Fuels
Climate change
Alternative energy
Waste and Environmental Economics
Water – supply and pollution
Soils
AP TEST!
With your neighbor:
List 10 ways you’ve used energy
today
How have you used energy today?
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Electricity
Heat
Motion/Mechanical
Chemical energy (food, fuel)
Light
Energy of Position
Compare/contrast
• Energy = The ability to do work
• Fuel = a substance which can be used to provide
energy
A proposition:
• We NEED energy. The FORM of energy and the
FUELS we use to create convenient energy are a
matter of choice.
What the frack?
BBC: Fracking on the Eagle Ford
Shale
• Advantages
• Notes - Tradeoffs
disadvantages Questions
Homework – Prepare to Discuss!
• Prepare for Friday’s Socratic Dialogue on Fracking.
• Tonight:
▫ Read Chronicle article “Texans say dreams dying amid
flares in Eagle Ford”.
▫ Create Tree map to analyze article. Title: Impacts of
Fracking boom. Due next class.
• By Friday: Find two articles based on last name. (Cite
source) Print out or bring in on device. Read and
summarize for dialogue. ***Must be focused on what
regulations exist for this aspect of fracking!