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APES 6.4 Distribution of Natural Energy Resources

Enduring Understanding:

  • Humans use energy from a variety of sources, resulting in positive and negative consequences.

Learning Objective:

  • Identify where natural energy resources occur.

Essential Knowledge:

  • The global distribution of natural energy resources, such as ores, coal, crude oil, and gas, is not uniform and depends on the region's geologic history.

Natural Energy Resources

  • We will be looking at nuclear, coal or coke (a powdered version of coal), crude oil, and natural gas

Nuclear/Uranium

  • Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia, and South Africa have the top five amounts of uranium
  • Just because these countries have these resources doesn’t mean they use them

Crude Oil

  • Crude oil is used the most in middle east, considering it is so available
    • Also Venezuela, Russia, Canada and the US are some stand-out consumers
  • Most countries use crude oil to some extent

Natural Gas

  • Some in the middle east, Russia, the US
    • Again, many countries use natural gas as it is very easy to transport and distribute

Coal

  • Russia, China, the US, Australia
  • Another very popular and widespread energy source