Slide Preview for P2 Living for the Future

Powerpoint Description:

Use this slideshow to help you teach the OCR Gateway Living for the Future unit and it covers: solar panels, harnessing solar energy, passive solar heating, AC and DC, generating electricity, AC generators, using fuels in power stations, efficiency, global warming, the Greenhouse Effect, different views on global warming, nuclear power, biomass, advantages and disadvantages of different fuels, power, the cost of electricity, the National Grid, radioactivity, blocking radiation, ionisation, uses of alpha, beta and gamma radiation, handling radioactive materials, the components of our solar system, the order of the planets, distances in space, the light year, orbits, space travel, the moon and how it was formed, asteroids, asteroid collisions, comets, Near Earth Objects, the Big Bang theory, how red shift provides evidence for the Big Bang, cosmic microwave background radiation, the life cycle of a star, black holes, the geocentric and heliocentric models of the solar system.