Hydrological Energy

What is Hydropower?

• Power from fossil fuels
• Power from wind mills
• Power from Water currents
• Power from Dams

Where is the biggest hydro plant in the United States? (Hint: It's at a dam)

• Grand Coulee Dam
• A Dam
• Hoover Dam
• Dam Daniel 

What is the percentage of electricity made in Washington State is made out of hydroelectric ?

• Under 70%
• Over 70%
• None
• All of it

How is Hydropower produced? 

• they got water from the dams and separated the energy from the water
• Water flows through a turbine, spinning it, which in turn activates a generator to produce electricity.
  

How long has humans captured hydropower?

• Since 2000
• 1900
• Thousands of years
• I don't know yet

Where is the Grand Coulee Dam located? (Specifically) 

• Columbia river in Northern Washington State
•  Nevada
• Washington State

What does a hydroelectric power plant use?

• A dam on a river to restore water in a reservoir
• Water currents
• Water

What is one drawback of this type of energy?

• Money
• People
• The high cost of Dam construction

What is one benefit to this energy?

• once a dam is constructed, electricity can be produced at a constant rate
• Water
• Better energy

How does this energy pollution to water?

• here would also be a fish loss or modification of fish
•  reservoir and stream water
• there is no water pollution