Download STATION 1 Examine the maps and graphs on pages 366 and 367

STATION 1
Examine the maps and graphs on pages 366 and 367 and answer
the following questions
1. What regions of the world have very little solar energy available?
2. In 2005, what was the cost of solar energy production?
3. Examine the World Energy Production graph and summarize the trend in energy
production since 1970
STATION 2
1. What 3 Middle Eastern countries have the highest per capita GDP? What 3 have the
lowest?
2. How does the per capita GDP of Yemen compare to that of the United States?
(Look in the back of the book in the Global Data Bank for the U.S.)
3. Why is per capita GDP a better measure of a people’s well being than GDP?
STATION 3
1. How much oil did the United States consume per day in 2002?
2. How much oil did the India and China combined consume per day in 2002?
3. Why do you think oil consumption is so much higher in the United States than in other
countries?
STATION 5
Look at the data table on page 363 and using your visa vie rank
the countries according to HDI.
1. What Middle Eastern oil country has the highest HDI and which has the lowest?
2. What do the countries that rank the highest all have in common?
3. Examine the oil reserves data table on page 361. Why do you think the countries
with the highest oil reserves do not have higher HDIs?
STATION 4
Examine the data table on page 361 and use your visa vie to rank
the countries below according to oil reserves.
1. What 3 countries have the largest oil reserves?
2. What 3 countries have the smallest oil reserves?
3. What is the relationship between the size of a country and the size of its oil reserves?
STATION 6
1. What 3 Middle Eastern oil countries have the highest populations?
2. What is the population of Bahrain?
3. How might a high population impact the well being of people?
STATION 7
1. What 3 countries have the largest oil reserves? What do these countries have in
common?
2. What is the size of Nigeria’s known oil reserves?
3. Examine the HDI ranking data table on page 363. How does Saudi Arabia rank and
why do you think this ranking is so low?
STATION 8
Using graph paper and the data table below, create a bar graph
showing the GDP of Southwest Asian oil countries. Make sure your
bar graph has TAILS. (Title, Axis, Intervals, Labels and Scale)
BONUS QUESTION
In what Middle Eastern countries were these photos taken?
What is your evidence?
Bonus Question:
Compare the world population cartogram with the oil consumption cartogram. What
countries use the most oil in relation to their population? In other words what countries
use a lot of oil in comparison to how many people live there.
Population Cartogram
Oil Use Cartogram
Between 1965
and 2004, an estimated 123 billion tons of oil were used worldwide. For every person alive in 2002, 19.7 tons of oil were used
over this 40 year period.
The biggest oil users over this period were the United States, followed by Japan, the Russian Federation and Germany. The
lowest oil usage per person was recorded in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Other territories probably used less oil than
these three, but were missing data to confirm that.
This map shows where oil was used, not where it was extracted. The map does not compare oil use to the reserves available.
No one can be certain of the how much oil remains. We do know how much we burn.