AQA GCSE Physics · 8463
Paper 1
Revise: Types of Energy ResourcesFossil fuels and nuclear fuel belong to this group.
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GCSE Physics · key term
Coal, oil or natural gas, formed from the remains of ancient organisms over millions of years.
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Paper 1
Revise: Types of Energy ResourcesFossil fuels and nuclear fuel belong to this group.
Specification 3.13 · Paper 1
Coal, oil or natural gas: a non-renewable fuel containing a chemical energy store that can be released by burning.
Revise: Energy SourcesFossil fuels—coal, oil and natural gas—and nuclear fuels such as uranium are non-renewable.
Learn the complete groups: non-renewable resources are fossil fuels and nuclear fuel; the other named resources are renewable.
Treat coal, oil and gas as three separate examples of the single category “fossil fuels”.
Classify nuclear fuel as non-renewable even though a nuclear power station does not burn a fossil fuel.
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