Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity utilizes what type of resource? (2 types of resources).
What is a renewable resource?
Through what object can engineers control the flow of water?
What are turbines?
Tidal energy power is produced by what?
What is the rise and fall of tides?
How many water turbines are there in the Hoover dam?
What is 17? (Common knowledge)
The amount of electrical energy that can be generated by a hydroelectric power plant depends upon what?
What is the quantity of water?
Buckets and blades used in a turbine are used to do what?
What is to alter the direction of water?
Tides are more predictable than what other renewable source of energy?
What is the wind and sun?
Which type of hydroelectric plant can never have a 100 percent load factor?
What is a peak load plant? (Easy question)
The production of electrical power occurs through what force of earth?
What is gravitational force?
The form of energy in a turbine used to run the electric power generator (linked to the turbine shaft) is what?
What is mechanical energy?
How is water trapped from coastal waters?
What is building dams?
Who first used water for energy (ever)?
What is ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia? (We learned this last year)
The system of electrical power lines that connects large generating station to buildings where people use electricity is called what?
What is a power grid?
One of the different types of hydraulic turbine is what?
What is reaction or impulse turbines?
How many basins does a single pool tidal system have?
What is one?
How much money does a hydroelectric dam make per kilowatt?
What is 4 cents? (A first grader would know)