Conserving energy not only cuts costs but also preserves resources for longer use. We depend on Earth's land, ocean, atmosphere and biosphere for different resources. Energy Reduction or Energy Conservation helps students understand where energy is wasted and how they can use energy efficiently.
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Sustainability connections to the CAS:
Obtaining evaluating and communicating information
Humans depend on Earth’s land, ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere for different resources, many of which are limited or not renewable. Resources are distributed unevenly around the planet as a result of past geologic processes.
Energy flows and matter cycles within and among Earth’s systems, including the sun and Earth’s interior as primary energy sources. Plate tectonics is one result of these processes.
Energy changes to and from each type can be tracked through physical or chemical interactions. The relationship between the temperature and the total energy of a system depends on the types, states and amounts of matter.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transported from one place to another and transferred between systems.
Although energy cannot be destroyed, it can be converted to less useful forms as it is captured, stored and transferred.
Resource availability has guided the development of human society and use of natural resources has associated costs, risks, and benefits.
Sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources, including the development of technologies.
