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AP Environmental Science
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Mind Map on AP Environmental Science, created by Logan Gleason on 14/04/2015.
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AP Environmental Science
Energy Resources and Consumption
Energy Concepts
Energy Forms
Renewable
Renewable energy is energy that comes from sources that can be replenished in a human lifetime
Non-Renewable
Nonrenewable energy is energy that comes from resources that can not be replenished in a human life time
Power
Power is electricity created either through the consumption of renewable or nonrenewable resources
Laws of Thermodynamics
The first law is that energy can not be created nor destroyed
The second law of thermodynamics is that we end up with less useable energy than we started with
Energy Consumption
Industrial revolution caused a large, rapid increase in energyconsumption
With the rise of consumerism energy production and consumption has increased
Fossil Fuel Resources and Use
Coal and oil are nonrenewable resources that is formed from fossils under pressure for millions of years
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