Power Plant Parts
This large structure in a power plant is used to dissipate heat into the atmosphere.
What is the cooling tower?
This is the primary energy change occurring at the generator in a power plant.
What is kinetic energy changing to electrical energy?
Both batteries and fuels store this specific type of energy.
What is chemical energy?
This is the primary source of all energy stored in a tree.
What is sunlight?
This household item is an example of a device that converts electrical energy into heat. It can be found in the kitchen and is used for bread.
What is a toaster?
This component is responsible for changing kinetic energy into electrical energy.
What is the generator?
This process, which occurs at location 1 in a power plant, releases energy stored in fuel.
What is combustion?
Unlike fuel that is piped in, a battery stores its chemical energy here
What is inside the battery itself?
Energy from the sun is captured by these parts of a tree to be stored.
What are leaves?
This mechanical device used to produce electricity when electrical lines are not available.
What is a generator?
This part of the plant is where fuel is typically burned to create heat.
What is the boiler?
This is the type of energy released when fuel is burned in a boiler.
What is heat?
This is the substance at "location 1" of a power plant that contains stored energy.
What is Fuel?
This term describes the process of releasing energy by burning a fuel source.
What is combustion?
This is the form of energy associated with motion, such as a spinning turbine.
What is kinetic energy?
Steam or water turns this device to create mechanical motion before it reaches the generator.
What is the turbine?
This is the specific energy conversion that both batteries and fuels have in common.
What is chemical energy to electrical energy?
This common fossil fuel is listed as an energy source, but not as a "device."
What is natural gas?
These substances are found in the soil but are not the primary source of a tree's stored energy.
What are minerals?
This term refers to the movement of energy from one place to another, rather than its conversion.
What is transportation?
In a power plant this is where kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy.
What is the generator?
This is the energy conversion sequence from a fuel source to the final output of a power plant.
What is chemical to heat to kinetic to electrical?
This is the main difference between how a power plant uses fuel and how a battery uses its internal chemicals.
What is where the energy is stored (internal vs. external source)?
When energy is "released" from fuel at location 1, it is undergoing this type of reaction.
What is a chemical reaction (combustion)?
The term used for the type of energy present when a wind turbine spins.
What is kinetic energy?