Questions 21 – 25 are based on the passage and graph below.
- During which year was the increase in hydroelectric power the least?
- Why is hydroelectric power considered
to be a cleaner source of energy than
fossil fuels?
- hydro plants emit less atmospheric pollutants
- hydro plants emit no atmospheric pollutants
- hydro plants avoid the risk of radioactive contamination
- hydro plants flood agricultural lands and forests
- Which of the following best describes
the reading passage?
- hydroelectricity is an environmental hazard
- How hydroelectricity is produced
- Hydroelectricity in Canada
- Hydroelectricity
- In the third paragraph what does the
word penstock mean?
- a pipe that carries water to the turbine
- water resting at the higher level
- the driving force of water
- another word for dam
- Which of the following statements is not true?
- hydroelectricity is cleaner than burning fossil fuels
- hydroelectricity is safer than nuclear power
- hydroelectricity plants convert kinetic energy to electricity
- 97% of the current total electricity production comes form, hydroelectricity