Types of hydropower
This type of hydropower uses the rise and fall of ocean levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.
What is tidal power?
This country is the world’s largest producer of hydropower
What is China?
This refers to energy that is generated using the movement of water (seriously y'all please get this one at least)
What is hydropower?
The natural resource harnessed by hydroelectricity
What is a Water Source?
The year the Redland Power Plant was constructed
When is 1893?
This type of hydropower plant does not rely on a dam but instead uses the natural flow and elevation drop of a river.
What is run-off river hydropower?
This South American river, shared by Brazil and Paraguay, is home to the Itaipu Dam.
What is the Parana River?
Hydropower is considered this type of energy because water naturally cycles through the environment
What is renewable energy?
The factor creating potential gravitational enercy
What is Elevation Difference?
The amount of residential customers the hydroelectric energy produced in the United States can provide power to
What is 28 Million?
A type of hydropower that works like a battery through storing energy by pumping water from a reservoir at a lower position into another reservoir at a higher position.
What is Pumped Storage?
This country uses hydropower from the Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam as major parts of its renewable energy sources
What is the United States?
Hydropower plants are known for producing this type of electricity, meaning they release no air pollution during operation
What is clean energy?
Machinery placed on the sides of waterfalls to catch the kinetic energy
What is a Turbine?
What the first commercial hydroelectric power plant in the US' electricity was used to power
What is a paper mill?
Small hydropower systems, often under 10 megawatts, that can power remote communities without large dams
What is micro-hydropower?
This country is the leading hydropower producer in South America
What is Brazil?
To prevent dams changing fish migration patterns, these are implemented
What are fish ladders and elevators?
Structures built to control the flow of water and produce reservoirs
What are Dams?
The country which recieves 99% of its energy from hydropower
What is Norway?
This term refers to hydropower systems that do not require a dam and instead rely on water pressure from pipes or municipal infrastructure.
What is in-pipe hydropower?
This country in Southeast Asia is rapidly expanding hydropower along the Mekong River
What is Laos?
One major ecological concern of hydropower dams is their effect on this type of fish that migrate upriver to spawn
What are salmon?
Pipes that channel water through turbines to generate electricity
What are Penstocks?
The amount of water required to generate 1 kWh of electricity
What is 18 gallons?