Vocabulary

5. a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
6. to bring into existence
7. equation an increase in the speed
8. electricity generated by hydropower.
11. pressure Water pressure is a term used to describe the flow strength of water through a pipe or other type of channel.
12. energy- the energy of a body or a system with respect to the position ofthe body or the arrangement of the particles of the system.
13. fuel anaerobic decomp. of buried dead organisms,
15. current an electric current that reverses direction at regular intervals,having a magnitude that varies continuously in sinusoidalmanner. Abbreviation: ac
16. a biological system consisting of all living organisms or biotic components in a certain area.
17. An artificial lake, or ‘impound’ for the dam.

1. is the potential difference between two points.
2. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes orblades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust ofa moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, eitheroccurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing throughand entirely filling a housing around the rotor.
3. ecological, or environmental area inhabited by a certain type of organism.
4. energy, Energy that can be used repeatedly
8. derived from the energy of falling water
9. A barrier that impounds water or underground streams
10. an electric device consisting essentially of two or more windings wound on the same core, which byelectromagnetic induction transforms electric energy fromone set of one or more circuits to another set of one ormore circuits such that the frequency of the energy remainsunchanged while the voltage and current usually change.
14. generator Magnet is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy.