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This coal starter pack combines a vocabulary list with a quiz and cloze notes to reinforce key concepts from the video. The quiz assesses students’ understanding of coal’s downsides and economic impacts, while the vocabulary list defines essential terms like emissions, domestic, mine, and sequester.
Instructions: Answer the prompt provided by your teacher.
Instructions: Watch the Introduction to Coal video and listen for the vocabulary words.
| Word | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Coal | noun; a black or brownish-black solid combustible substance burned as an energy source | “Today, coal is the world’s leading electricity source, and global use continues to rise.” |
| Domestic | adjective: belonging, originating in, or related to one’s own country | “Nearly every major country has an available domestic coal reserve.” |
| Reserve | noun: something that can be produced at today’s prices with today’s technology | “Nearly every major country has an available domestic coal reserve.” Note: Reserves change with price and technology. |
| Mine | verb: to get or extract a resource (ores, minerals or aggregates) from the earth | “Easy to mine, easy to transport, easy to store and easy to turn into electricity.” |
| Sequester | verb: to store (for example, carbon dioxide) typically as a part of a subsurface disposal | “The best coal plants capture some of this, but most don’t and there are only a few coal plants in the world that capture and sequester some of their CO2 .” |
| Emissions | noun: substances discharged into the local air or atmosphere | “This means that burning coal produces significant CO2 emissions.” |
Instructions: Circle the correct answer based on what you learned in the Introduction to Coal video and then fill in the blanks using the word bank.
Q1. The biggest downside of coal as a future energy source is that it is
Q2. What is the main reason a country might choose coal to porduce its electricity?
Q3. Electricity from coal has the potential to lift many developing countries out of
Q4. Which type of pollution is generated by burning coal?
Word Bank
| affordable | available | coal | countries |
| developing | electricity | pollution | poverty |
Coal is _________________________, easy to use, and cheap. Cheap _________________________ makes all products more _________________________ and lifts _________________________ countries out of _________________________. But _________________________ produces huge local _________________________: half of global CO2 emissions, much of it from the same developing _________________________.