Wind Power

Wind power

• is energy derived from the wind

• is always available

• is used to produce electricity

• produces absolutely no pollution

What device do you need to convert the energy of the wind into electricity?

• Wind turbines

• Propellers

• Wind mills

• The sun

What is a wind farm?

• A farm that uses windpower

• Wind turbines grouped together in an area

• A plant that produces energy to move wind turbines

• A farm that produces wind

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What type of energy does a wind farm exploit?

• Electricity

• Mechanical energy

• Thermal energy

• All otpions correct

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What type of pollution do wind turbines cause?

• They pollute the air and the soil

• They do not pollute

• They produce noise and great visual impact

• They pollute water and soil

Where are wind turbines placed?

• On land, near villages and towns

• On land and off shore

• Only on plains

• In windy areas

Winds are generated by

• the movement of clouds

• air moving from low to high pressure areas

• heat absorbed and then released by the Earth

• air moving from high to low pressure areas

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Resources that are not able to be reproduced as quickly as they are used are called _____.

• renewable resources

• replaceable resources

• non renewable resources

• non replaceable resources

Renewable resources ...

• are not replaceable

• are used more frequently than non renewables

• are never going to run out

• going to run out

What type of energy resource is wind?

• Nonrenewable
• Renewable
• Exhaustible