Energy and the environment — IGCSE Environmental Management (0680) questions by topic
Working out remaining fossil-fuel supply from reserve and extraction figures, explaining how wave power is generated from incoming and outgoing waves, suggesting why some communities object to wind turbines, and stating the year a country became a net energy importer are the tasks this topic sets, worth 5 to 27 marks across 16 real questions from 2023 to 2025 papers.
Suggest, state, describe, explain and calculate top the command words, and calculate here means working through the given reserve, extraction and supply figures to find the missing value, not estimating from the trend. Because these questions combine reading an energy-supply graph with a calculation, drafting the full working and checking it against instant marking confirms the arithmetic and the read-off value both hold up together.
May–June 2025, Paper 11
The photograph shows workers extracting coal from a mine. Circle the name for this method of extracting coal. opencast strip fracking shaft
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 13
The photograph shows workers extracting coal from a mine. Circle the name for this method of extracting coal. opencast strip fracking shaft
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 22
Solar power is used to generate electricity on Ischia. The photograph shows solar panels with cars parked under the solar panels (the panels form a canopy over a car park, with…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 23
The table shows total electricity generation and consumption in the Faroe Islands in 2020. --- --- total electricity generation / million kWh 307.0 total electricity consumption /…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2024, Paper 11
The table shows ten countries with the most nuclear reactors in power stations in 2022: Canada 19, China 28, France 58, India 21, Japan 43, Russia 34, South Korea 24, UK 16,…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2024, Paper 12
The table shows the year that reserves of fossil fuels are predicted to be used up: oil 2052, coal 2090, natural gas 2060. Calculate the number of years the reserves of coal are…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2024, Paper 13
The table shows ten countries with the most nuclear reactors in power stations in 2022: Canada 19, China 28, France 58, India 21, Japan 43, Russia 34, South Korea 24, UK 16,…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2024, Paper 22
Uzbekistan is rich in energy resources. The table shows reserves (arbitrary units), annual extraction (arbitrary units) and remaining supply (years): natural gas (2240, 60.0,…
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2024, Paper 11
The diagram shows equipment used to generate electricity from tidal power. A (not to scale) cross-section shows transmission cables on pylons on land, a cable running down a steep…
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2024, Paper 12
The diagram shows existing and planned coal-fired power stations in six countries in 2022. Proportional circles (key: existing = open, planned = filled) give existing/planned…
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2024, Paper 13
The diagram shows how nuclear power is used to generate electricity. A labelled flow diagram (key: arrows show movement of water) shows: nuclear reactor (with water), turbine,…
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 11
The photograph shows wind turbines used to generate electricity. Suggest reasons why some people do not want wind turbines to be built.
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 13
The diagrams show how wave power is used to generate electricity. An incoming wave pushes water into a wave chamber, forcing air up through a turbine connected to a generator; an…
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 21
The map shows the planned route of HS2, a railway track for high-speed trains in the UK (planned HS2 track and existing track, capital cities and stations marked, scale 0–100 km).…
Answer this question and get it marked →The graph shows the net percentage of energy supply that was imported and exported from 1995 to 2019 for the UK (positive = net importer; negative = net exporter). State the year…
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 23
Suggest three problems of using hydroelectric power.
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