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Wind Energy Quiz

Explore how moving air can make electricity. Read the short scenario and inspect the energy-change grid, then answer the questions. For questions with more than one reasonable answer, explain your thinking.

A windy day on the coast

Mere visits a wind farm in Aotearoa New Zealand. The wind pushes the turbine blades, making them turn. Inside each turbine, a generator changes the blades’ movement into electrical energy. Cables carry the electricity to homes and businesses. Wind is a renewable energy source because nature keeps producing moving air. However, wind farms need suitable sites, and people may discuss their effects on landscapes, wildlife and nearby communities.

Moving air (wind)

Turbine blades turn

Generator produces electricity

Check the science

Use the scenario and energy-change grid to answer Questions 1–4.

1.What makes a wind turbine’s blades turn?

Sunlight shining on the blades
Moving air pushing the blades
Electricity flowing through the cables
Water turning a wheel

2.Complete the energy-change chain: the wind’s kinetic energy becomes movement, then the generator produces energy.

3.Why is wind energy described as renewable?

4.True or false? A wind turbine generator changes movement into electrical energy.

TrueFalse

Make a decision

Imagine a community is considering a wind farm. Think about how it works and who may be affected.

5.Which part of a turbine catches the wind and turns?

Generator
Blades
Power cable
Tower foundation

6.Name one possible benefit of building a wind farm for a community or the environment.

7.Name one possible concern people might raise about a wind farm.

8.A turbine stops turning when the wind drops below the speed needed to operate it. What does this show about wind energy?

It is available at exactly the same rate all the time
Its supply can vary with weather conditions
It is made by the generator from nothing
It can only be used beside the sea

9.A classmate says, “Wind turbines make electricity because the blades store wind inside them.” Correct this explanation using the words wind, blades and generator.

10.Should a community support a proposed wind farm? Give one reason for your view and one fact or consideration that could help the community decide fairly.