Environmental Resources

Starter Task – Think (5), Pair (7), Share (10+)

An environmental resource is something that is natural but

used by humans.

Produce a table like the one below:

Environmental Resource Used to …
Trees Paper, building, fires
The wind To dry washing, produce electricity
Types of Environmental Resources
KEY WORDS
Sustainable
Renewable Resource
Non-Renewable Resource
Continuous Resource
Finite Resource

After listening to Mr Rollin use the help words

write a sentence to explain each one.

EXTENSION – What category(or categories) are

trees in?
HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE
Produce a piece of work to show at least 10 environmental
resources that you have used today.
They can be directly used eg I drank some water or indirectly
used eg The petrol (oil) was used to power the engine in my
car.

You can present how you like eg a diary, poster, powerpoint

etc

EXTENSION – Any actions you did to try and be more

sustainable eg I recycled oil (plastic) or watered my garden
at night so it did not evaporate.
 WATER!!
STARTER 1 – How much water do you think the average Australian uses in 1 day?

STARTER 2 – Write down a list of times when you use water.

How much water does my house use?

Write down the answer for later!
Where does water come from?
Saturated
CONDECSATION
GAS COOL DOWN
Evapotranspiration TURN INTO LIQUIDS
Evapo + trees vomit

Precipitation
(rain, snow, hail,
sleet)

EVAPORATION
Ove
r HEATS UP TURNS INTO
(stre land flo
Infiltration am s w WATER VAPOUR
, rive
Water soak in r)
ground

Ground water flow

 Why does it rain?
All rain is made in the same way.

Warm, moist (containing water vapour) air near the

surface is made to rise. When warm air rises it cools
down. This means the ability of it to hold water is
reduced. Eventually it cannot hold all the water and
condensation occurs making tiny water droplets. Large
groups of these are called clouds. If it cools further
these droplets get bigger and eventually fall to earth as
precipitation – anything made out of water falling from
the sky.
 Activities
1. Using page 46-47 to help
annotate Mr Rollin’s 3
diagrams in as much
detail as you can.
2. Attempt activity 5 in the
textbook.
Accessing water resources
Starter –
What percentage of the world’s water is fresh (no salt?)
What percentage of the world’s water is liquid and on the
surface?

Compare the map on page 49 with a real map of the world.

If a country is bigger than the water map version it has
above average access to water, if it is smaller it has below
average access to water. Find some countries in both
categories.

What is the weakness(es) with this map?

EXTENSION – What can a water poor area do to improve its
situation?
 Water Above and Below
The Ground

Using a diagram explain how water end up

underground and how we can access it.

EXTENSION – Why must we be careful to not

overuse this resource.
What does Perth do to manage this vital
underground resource?
Where does my water come from?
Perth has 4 main water sources:

1. Ground water (40%)

2. Surface water (using dams) – 10%

3. Desalination (sea water) - (48%

and rising)
How does it work? Access video
4. Groundwater Replenishment (2%)
How does it work? Access Video

KEY TERMS

Physical Water Scarcity – There is not enough rain or river water available. Perth has
this.

Economic Water Scarcity – There is not enough money to source (and create), clean
and transport water to people. Perth does not have this issue.
What patterns can you see?
Why?
 Water for Food
The biggest users of water in Australia are farmers who
irrigate their land.
STARTER
1. What percentage of the fresh water used in
Australia is used by farmers?
2. What do you think the word irrigation means?
 HOW MUCH WATER DOES IT TAKE?
BREAKFAST TIME
Product What is the water used for? How much to
make…
1 kg of To water the trees, wash the fruit 1391 litres
apricots
1 kg of wheat
(bread)
1L of milk

1 kg of butter

1 kg of
raspberry jam
1 kg of Rice
Bubbles
 Turn to page 60-61
Complete the following activities
In full sentence answers
2.
4.
6.
8a and b
9
Making Electricity from Water
Make a copy of Mr Rollin’s diagram to explain how a generator mak
es electricity
How do you think we can make electricity from water?
Making energy from Water - Now explain how Hydro-Electricity is
made using a diagram to annotate it.

RESEARCH TASK – HOMEWORK

Produce a detailed report about the Three Gorges Dam in China.
How much electricity – is it reliable?
When was it built? How long did it take?
Is it still fully working? Does it need maintaining?
How big is the dam and the reservoir? What was there before?
How was it built? How much did it cost? How much pollution
does it save?
Why did we need it? WHERE IS IT?