Energy Resource Management | Edexcel GCSE Geography A (1GA0)
Energy Resource Management
- 85 questions
- 6 subtopics
- Paper 2
- Paper 2
Energy Resource Management is examined in Paper 2, The Human Environment.
It covers renewable and non-renewable energy resources compared, the UK’s energy mix and why energy mixes vary, rising energy demand and the development of non-renewables, developing renewables, and fracking, stakeholder attitudes to energy and sustainable management of energy resources.
Sample questions from Energy Resource Management
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Renewable and non-renewable energy resources compared
Why are coal, oil and gas grouped together as fossil fuels?
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They all formed from the buried remains of plants and animals over millions of years. -
Renewable and non-renewable energy resources compared
Why does opening a new oilfield often bring economic gains to a country?
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It creates jobs and export earnings and cuts the amount the country has to spend importing fuel. -
The UK’s energy mix and why energy mixes vary
Which renewable source has grown fastest in the UK in recent years?
Show the answer
Wind power, especially from large offshore wind farms around the coast. -
The UK’s energy mix and why energy mixes vary
Why do richer countries usually consume far more energy per person?
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People there own more cars, appliances and heated or cooled homes, and industry and services use energy heavily. -
Rising energy demand and the development of non-renewables
Why did the spread of car ownership matter so much for oil?
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Fuel for road vehicles became one of the biggest single uses of oil in the world. -
Rising energy demand and the development of non-renewables
How is natural gas moved from a producing country to distant customers?
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Along long-distance pipelines, or chilled to a liquid and carried in specialised tankers. -
Developing renewables, and fracking
Why are so many new wind farms built out at sea?
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Winds offshore are stronger and steadier, and the turbines stand far from homes. -
Developing renewables, and fracking
Which rock is targeted by fracking, and why will its gas not flow out on its own?
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Shale, because the gas is held in pores too tiny and poorly connected for it to escape unaided.
The 6 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Renewable and non-renewable energy resources compared | Renewable energy resource, three renewable resources widely used to make electricity and one benefit and one drawback of generating electricity from uranium. | 12 |
| The UK’s energy mix and why energy mixes vary | What an energy mix is, the shares of gas, coal, wind and nuclear in UK generation, why the UK imports energy, and how population, wealth, physical resources and poverty shape what a country burns. | 10 |
| Rising energy demand and the development of non-renewables | The rise in world energy consumption from population, wealth, technology and emerging economies, how coal, offshore oil, natural gas and uranium are extracted and moved and the environmental and local costs of each, and how graphs of projected population compare with likely energy supply. | 18 |
| Developing renewables, and fracking | How hydro-electric schemes, wind turbines and photovoltaic panels generate electricity and what each costs the environment, then what fracking is, the shale it targets, and the objections raised against it. | 12 |
| Stakeholder attitudes to energy | What a stakeholder is, why residents, energy companies, governments, campaign groups and consumers take different views of a new scheme, and why national and local opinions on the same project conflict. | 10 |
| Sustainable management of energy resources | What sustainable energy use means, why finite fuels and renewables both need managing, conservation and household savings, government measures and international agreements, how the task differs between wealthy and developing countries, and how carbon and ecological footprints are defined, calculated and compared. | 23 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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