Wind Energy

Wind is what type of energy?

• Renewable

• Non-Renewable

An area of land with a group of energy-producing windmills or wind turbines

• Windmills

• Wind Farm

• Wind Turbines

• Generators

Select the following Pros (Advantages) of using Wind Energy:

• Renewable

• It's a Green Energy

• Noise

• How they look

How do wind turbines affect the environment.

• Can harm birds and other wildlife

• Cuts the clouds which affects the water cycle.

• Hits trees around them

• They are perfect for the environment.

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The diagram above shows a wind turbine. Which section of the wind turbine converts wind energy to electrical energy?

• blades

• generator

• rotor

• pitch system

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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

Wind energy is considered renewable because:

• wind turbines can be easily replaced

• no carbon dioxide or water vapour is produced during operation

• no waste heat energy is produced

• there is a continuing supply of wind energy

The primary driver for the wind energy deployment is the reduction of:

• greenhouse gas emissions

• water consumption

• land consumption

• deforestation

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The device/equipment used to harvest the aerodynamic force from the wind and convert it into electrical energy is called:

• wind turbine

• wind down

• wind farm

• wind screen

Offshore wind farm is located:

• on land

• on bodies of water