Electrical Structures
The type of wire that is best for transporting energy.
What is COPPER?
Was a power source contributor to the Texas blackout. It begins with wind, name the structure.
The three colors that make up candy corn.
What are YELLOW, ORANGE, and WHITE?
To reduce breakage of these electrical components, some places have begun to put them underground.
What are POWERLINES?
A process where plants transform sunlight into a food source.
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
The component within a wire that has a negative charge.
A type of energy that comes from sedimentary rock and is known as a fossil fuel.
What is COAL?
This character in, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, believed in the Great Pumpkin.
Who is LINUS?
A structure that transfers energy to a community.
What is the SUBSTATION?
The chemical formula for water.
What is H2O?
A tool used to measure electrical charge.
What is AMMETER?
Complete the transfer of energy in the power source:
water→ steam→ turbine → ______________ → wires → power distribution.
What is GENERATOR?
What Arizona city shares its name with something you’d find in a graveyard?
What is TOMBSTONE?
Energy flows to buildings and to the surroundings. Name two ways energy is lost to the surroundings.
What are HEAT, BROKEN CIRCUIT, etc.?
Energy that is stored.
What is POTENTIAL ENERGY?
After entering a building, these switches are usually turned on to complete the circuit.
What is CIRCUIT BREAKER?
During a crisis, energy demand may increase while supply decreases. There are two energy sources that tend to have constant production during a crisis. Name them.
What are COAL and NUCLEAR POWER?
Trees change color in the fall. Name the three main colors seen during this change.
What are RED, ORANGE, YELLOW?
Texas has an energy crisis that caused a black out. Name three potential causes of people losing power during this time.
What could be
Storm, lines/power source to freeze, short circuits within the city, demand was greater than supply, choices had to be made about who got power
A process that breaks down earth structure through wind, water, and chemicals.
What is EROSION?
Used to give electrical energy a safe place to travel if energy reaches unsafe levels in a wire.
What is GROUND WIRE?
This type of energy comes from the Earth’s geosphere.
What is GEOTHERMAL?
An annual tradition since 1916 that has been debated, and is happening on Sunday.
The correlation coefficient is represented this way.
What is r2?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the SKIN?