What is Hydropower?
What natural resource does hydropower use to make electricity?
Water
What ancient people used water wheels to grind food?
Greeks/Romans
Which country makes the most hydropower today?
China
what do we call the water that comes out of a dam?
Outflow
What part of a hydropower plant spins when water moves through it?
Turbine
What famous dam helped power the American Southwest?
Hoover Dam
What river is the Three Gorges Dam built on?
Yangtze River
What's a tiny hydropower system that can power a small home?
Microhydro
What is the big wall that holds back water called?
Dam
What U.S. group built dams in the 1930s to help people get jobs and electricity?
T.V.A (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Which South American country gets almost all its power from hydropower?
Paraguay
What do we call a power plant that uses a river's natural flow instead of a big dam?
Run-of-river plant
What kind of energy does water behind a dam have?
Potential energy
Where was the first U.S. hydroelectric power plant built?
Wisconsin
What part of Canada sells hydropower to the U.S?
Quebec
What unit is used to measure power made by hydropower plant?
Megawatt
What is it called when energy changes from one type to another, like from water to electricity?
Energy transformation
Who helped send hydropower over long distances using alternating current?
Nikola Tesla
What river in Africa had the Grand Renaissance Dam?
Blue nile
BONUS: What can happen to fish when they can't swim past a dam?
They can't reach where they lay eggs?