Hydropower
Across
- 2. Animal that gets caught in turbines
- 4. Large structure across a river
- 7. Lake behind a dam
- 9. Part of a dam for extra or overflow water
- 10. points
- 12. Land that water flows across or under on its way to a stream, river, lake, or ocean
- 19. Process of expanding, upgrading, and improving efficiency of existing hydropower facilities
- 20. This energy powers the water cycle
- 21. Dams can _______ energy until its needed
- 22. Device that converts the rotational energy from a turbine to electrical energy
- 24. The advantage to hydropower
- 25. a facility that channels a portion of a river through a canal or penstock
Down
- 1. The water downstream of the powerhouse
- 3. Precipitation, snowmelt, glacial melt, or irrigation water that appears in uncontrolled surface streams, rivers, drains, or sewers
- 5. Moving water spins the blade of this
- 6. Hydropower can be replenished in a short amount of time
- 8. An electrical transmission and distribution system
- 11. This country uses hydropower the most
- 13. The rotating part of the turbine that converts the energy of falling water energy
- 14. The water level above the powerhouse
- 15. The disadvantage of hydropower
- 16. Rotating inner portion of a generator consisting of a series of windings that surround the
- 17. The giant tube in a hydropower plant
- 18. What generates hydropower?
- 23. The amount of electrical power delivered or required at any specific point or points on a system