1. Ответьте на вопросы

1. What is often characterized by amounts of biodiversity and geodiversity existent in various ecosystems?

2. What kind of differences between natural resources?

3. What a reason of much debate worldwide over natural resource allocations?

4. What natural resources can be found everywhere, and are known as ubiquitous resources?

5. Why energy is a difficult concept to understand?

6. How sound is produced?

7. What kind of form of energy do you know?

8. What have scientists discovered?

9. Is energy important for our body?

10. If energy is the ability to do work, how does thermal energy fit into this definition?

2. Найдите синонимы

Motion, natural, frequently, often, some, a few, essential, warm, ability, indispensable, movement, sound, tiny, capability, abstract, innate, hot, noise, small, theoretical.

Найдите антонимы

Natural, unessential, often, essential, cold, warm, silence, ability, sound, tiny, concrete, huge, disability, abstract, artificial, seldom.

3. Переведите следующие слова и выражения на английский язык

1. Природные ресурсы.

2. Биоразнообразия.

3. Экосистема.

4. Материалы и компоненты.

5. Юридический.

6. Живой организм.

7. Альтернативный.

4. Переведите следующие слова и выражения на русский язык

1. May exist in.

2. Exportation.

3. Non living things.

4. Sound waves move.

5. Vibration.

6. Quantify.

7. Energy efficiency.

World Energy Resources

The World Energy Council, in the interest of ensuring a sustainable energy future for all, has been conducting the World Energy Resources study (former Survey of Energy Resources) since 1933.  The World Energy Resources report covers 12 major fossil fuel and renewable sources, with national assessment for all of the WEC’s member countries.  For over 80 years this highly regarded publication has been a reference tool for governments, industry, investors, IGOs, NGOs and academia.

This statistical report presents values for reserves and production of various resources at the global level. The World Energy Resources project team and its working groups collect and analysis data on specific resources and reserves. In addition to resource data the report also assesses current and emerging technologies, to provide a solid basis for energy policy and decision-making.

“The WEC is the only global organization that gathers such a wide range of data covering finite resources, such as coal and gas, as well as nuclear and renewable sources, including geothermal, hydro and wind energy.”

The report aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge foundation for all policy and strategic decisions, including the answers to some of the energy sector’s most pressing questions:

- When will the world run out of oil?

- What is the status and potential benefit of shale gas, biomass, wind, solar and other renewable and fossil energy resources?

- What are the issues impacting smart grids, energy-water linkages, carbon capture and sequestration, clean coal technologies, fourth-generation nuclear, or e-mobility?

- What is the energy return on energy invested?

The World Energy Resources study group engages leading experts in reviewing resource data and other information and collects data from industry, government and academia across all regions. Individual members of the study group meet regularly to discuss trends in energy resource exploration and development.

Energy Resources:

Along with all other natural resources like air, water, land, forestry and fisheries, energy also occupies an important place. Our progress And prosperity depend solely upon it. Natural resources, energy and Environment are intimate related. Distributed or anyone would definitely cause disturbances in other two.

Energy is required for beneficial use of natural resources and the resources, on the other hand, provide energy. The interaction of these two in the environment in safe and tolerable limit is called 'limit of tolerance. When this is disturbed, great disasters occur.

Depending on the source and availability, energy resources are mainly of two types: non-conventional or renewable energy and conventional energy.

Non-conventional or renewable energy it is a type of non-replenish able or non-exhaustible form obtained from the continuous or repetitive currents of energy occurring in the natural environment. As the source of energy is unlimited, it is also called infinite or renewable energy.

The examples are: Biomass and Biogas Solar, Wind, Tidal, Minihydel and Geothermal.

Conventional energy. All the non-renewable types of energy come under this category. In this case, the raw materials that provide energy cannot be replaced. Once it is used, its stock is depleted forever. The common types are coal, Oil Natural gas and recently the Nuclear energy.

Energy Resources. Everywhere we go there is energy around us. All animals, plants, humans need it to live. Also machines need energy to be able to work, and our lives are dependent on a lot of these machines. Nowadays we can't imagine living without them. Though, if we continue using energy for these machines the way we do it now, we won't be able to use them much longer. Because this energy is running out. We're talking about electricity, which is mostly produced by three fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas. They are burned to heat up water. This produces steam, which makes a turbine move, which produces energy. This way of producing energy, causes that in the world every hour almost 1 million barrel of fossil fuels are burned, permanently. However, the stock of fossil fuels are running out. There is only enough coal in the world for another 300 years and oil and gas even for only another 50 years. This is not the only disadvantage of using these fuels. They are also causing serious damage to the environment. When they are being burned, they produce toxic gasses which appear in the form of acid rain. Some gasses also cause the greenhouse-effect. These facts are enough reasons for people to look for alternative energy resources. For instance nuclear energy. Some think this is a clean and safe alternative, but this has also disadvantages. There is also ways to use the energy from wind, water, biomass and the sun. These are durable energy sources. We are going to look deeper to each form of energy resource, and find out which ones of all of these are the best to use in our future.