2.10 Filthy Rich? 3 TTO - lesson 1

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2.10 - Filthy rich?

What is the name of 2.10 regarding this chapter about? (Filthy rich)

Lesson goals

• You can name the negative effects of the extracting processes for fossil fuels.
• You understand the difference between conventional and unconventional fossil fuels. 
• You can describe how shalegas is extracted through fracking.
• You understand what tarsands are.

Start: knowledge check 2.8+2.9

When was the basis for crude oil formed?

1. Jurassic
2. Carboniferous
3. Precambrian
4. Holocene

When was the basis for coal formed?

1. Jurassic
2. Carboniferous
3. Precambrian
4. Holocene

Coal

Crude oil

dry gas

wet gas

plankton

peat

warm sea

tropical swamp

carbon

triassic jurassic cretaceous

folds & fractures though plate tectonics

Open pit mining

offshore

00:50

What is peak oil?

1. the most crude oil you can get from a source
2. the point when 50% of crude oil has been used
3. the time when people use the most crude oil
4. the moment when there is no more crude oil

Do you think that in the next 30 years, there will be a bigger or smaller global demand for fossil fuels? Why?

Speak

1. According to this figure, have we reached peak oil?
2. What does the figure predict about demand for oil?
3. What could be reasons that the demand would increase so strongly?

However...

• Not all countries are open about how much reserves of fossil fuels they actually have
• New reserves of fossil fuels can be discovered / come within reach
• New technologies might allow to extract fossil fuels that before were not economical
• Demand might decrease with more economical appliances/cars
• Alternative energy might take a bigger role

01:19

What is tar sand?

1. Bitumen, which are blobs with oil around it
2. A sand & water mixture that contains crude oil
3. A mixture of sand, clay, water and bitumen
4. Sticky clay which you can get oil from

04:35

Why is extracting crude oil from the bitumen in tar sands more expensive than from a conventional oil field?

07:03

Name the three ways extraction of tar sands harm the natural environment

07:44

Give an argument why it is okay for the Canadian government to continue extracting crude oil in this way.

Work time

2.9 had to be finished before todays' lesson

2.10 to make: 1, 3, 4, 10

This week also:

Summary page 64-65