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Wind Energy Quiz 10 (25 MCQs)

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1. When the wind blows, the air movement is caused by:
2. What is not a nonrenewable resource
3. A rotor installed in a fixed orientation with the swept area perpendicular to the predominate wind direction is called
4. What is the windiest place on Earth?
5. How much does it cost to keep a wind turbine running 24/7 for a month?
6. One advantage of tidal power is-
7. Place the following events in sequence:A) Persians use windmills to grind grain; B) Egyptians used wind to power sailboats; C) Europeans develop windmills
8. What are a group of wind turbines called?
9. What does an inverter do in a solar panel?
10. Wind mills and wind turbines have different size blades because:
11. Which offers less friction as air moves across the earth's surface?
12. Why are people building taller wind turbines?
13. Where would the Wind Farms be?
14. Usual blade diameter of wind turbine is
15. In the year _____, oil prices sky rocketed and people became interested in wind energy as a source of producing electricity once again.
16. True or False:Wind energy is a renewable source of energy
17. Which of the following is an example of wind energy
18. All of the following are uses of wind energy except:
19. Which is NOT a way tidal power affects the environment?
20. What is iowa's wind energy production percentage
21. One of the biggest (7) _____ about wind turbines, is their effect on bats and birds. In Norway, nine out of ten sea eagles were killed by turbines.
22. What's Good about Wind Power?
23. By definition, renewable energy is energy generated from _____ resources and is naturally _____
24. Betz's Law states that no windmill can capture more than _____ of the kinetic energy in wind to convert into electricity.
25. Who discovered the windmill?
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