Wind Energy

With wind-electric turbines, electric energy is turned into rotational energy.

• True

• False

What is called the cooler air that rushes to fill the space left by hot air leaving when temperature rises?

• Water

• Wind

• Current

• Gas

Who was the first American to produce electricity using a wind turbine?

• James Blyth

• George Brush

• Charles Winchester

• Charles F. Brush

Which country is currently not a leader in wind technology?

• Germany

• China

• Denmark

• Spain

How is wind caused?

• There's a giant fan in Afghanistan where it cools the earth

• Unequal heating

• When clouds cover a certain area

• Hot air rises

What is wind?

• Air

• Nothing

• Air in motion

• A fan

How can wind become energy?

• When a wind turbines changes the kinetic energy in wind to electric energy.

• When a windmill goes fast enough

• It just naturally is

• The sun heats it so it becomes solar energy

What are wind farms and what do they do?

• It's a power plant.

• A bunch of wind turbines that generates power everywhere.

• A bunch of windmills that generates power everywhere

• A bunch of people that blow to create wind energy

True or False: Wind energy is a renewable source of energy

• True

• False

• It is partially both renewable and nonrenewable

How is wind energy used today in the modern world?

• In homes

• Schools and businesses

• To Pump water

• All of the above

• None of the above