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Worksheet Wind Turbines

The document provides vocabulary terms and questions related to wind turbines and how they work to generate electricity from wind power. It asks the reader to identify missing elements from a diagram of a wind turbine, answer questions about why turbines are located near coastlines and what factors are important for their installation. It also asks the reader to identify advantages and disadvantages of wind turbines. Finally, it provides a description of how wind turbines work to transform kinetic energy from wind into electrical energy, with blanks to be filled in, and asks the reader to write captions describing this process for accompanying images.

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Worksheet Wind Turbines

The document provides vocabulary terms and questions related to wind turbines and how they work to generate electricity from wind power. It asks the reader to identify missing elements from a diagram of a wind turbine, answer questions about why turbines are located near coastlines and what factors are important for their installation. It also asks the reader to identify advantages and disadvantages of wind turbines. Finally, it provides a description of how wind turbines work to transform kinetic energy from wind into electrical energy, with blanks to be filled in, and asks the reader to write captions describing this process for accompanying images.

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Worksheet wind turbines : INTRODUCTION

Vocabulary : find the right translation in the list of words :

To be aware of : coastlines :
a plane propeller : windy :
blow : wind powered water pumps :
blades : reliable :
magnets : fin :
a bunch : power :
copper wire : Efficiency :
take advantage of :

1/Write the different elements missing from the diagram :

2/Answer the different questions below(in pair-works) with your own words:

a/ Why are turbines so high ?

b/Why are turbines located near coastlines ?

c/What are the two important factors for this installation ?

c/What happens when there is no wind ?


3/ Pick out the advantages and the drawbacks of wind turbines and rephrase them with your own
words :

Advantages : drawbacks :

HOW WIND TURBINES WORK :

On top of each turbin is a box known as ________________.Attached to the Nacelle are three
propellers _______________ that connect to a _______________.Also on the nacelle is an
anenometer to measure wind ____________ and ____________ . The wind direction rotates the
nacelle to face into the wind.The energy in the wind called kinetic energy turns the
_________________around the rotor creating mechanical energy. The rotor connects to the main
________________ which turns inside a generator housing.Here ______________ spins inside loops
of copper wire,this causes eletrons inside the copper to flow creating
____________________energy,what e call electricity in our daily lives.For this wind turbine a step up
____________________ inside the nacelle increases the electrical generation from 690v to 3400v.
The electricity generated then travels down large cable from the nacelle through
__________________ and into __________________. The cables takes the electricy generated from
all the wind turbines to ____________________.Here a step up transformer increases the electrical
_______________.A transmission line connect the electricity output at the substation to the
electrical grid community service throughout the region.
Recap : write a caption for each image to describe the process of generating electricity from the
wind

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