Energy IQ
What form of energy powers most of the electronic devices you use every day?
What is electrical energy?
This person installs and repairs electrical wiring in homes and buildings.
What is an electrician?
This renewable energy source comes from the Sun.
What is solar energy?
An electrician uses this handheld tool to tighten or loosen screws.
What is a screwdriver?
This is the energy used to power your phone, television, and refrigerator.
What is electricity?
What is the most abundant source of energy that reaches Earth?
What is the Sun/solar energy?
This professional works with equipment that produces electricity at a power plant.
What is a power plant operator?
This energy source uses moving air to generate electricity.
What is wind energy?
This tool is used to measure electrical voltage, current, and resistance.
What is a multimeter?
This unit measures how much electrical power a device uses.
What is a watt?
Which uses less electricity: an LED light bulb or a traditional incandescent bulb?
What is an LED light bulb?
This career involves designing systems that use sunlight to create electricity.
What is a solar engineer?
This renewable energy source uses moving water to produce electricity.
What is hydropower?
This protective equipment helps protect an electrical worker's eyes from sparks and debris.
What are safety glasses?
This device changes the voltage of electricity as it moves through the power grid.
What is a transformer?
What is the name for energy that comes from sources that naturally replenish themselves, such as sunlight and wind?
What is renewable energy?
This worker installs, maintains, and repairs wind turbines.
What is a wind turbine technician?
This energy source comes from heat stored inside the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
A technician may use this device to detect areas where heat is escaping from a building.
What is a thermal imaging camera?
This unit is commonly used to measure electrical power.
What is a watt?
A device uses 100 watts of power for 10 hours. How many watt-hours of energy does it use?
What is 1,000 watt-hours (1 kWh)?
installs and repairs power lines and electrical equipment.
What is a lineman?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are all examples of this type of energy resource.
What are fossil fuels?
This instrument can measure how much electrical power a device is using.
What is a wattmeter/power meter?
Replacing an old, inefficient appliance with a newer appliance that uses less electricity is an example of this.
What is energy efficiency?