You need to know what the water cycle is: Water Cycle
Questions to think about: Why is there a need for power generation?
Where did this need come from? Why did it exist and why does it still exist now?
Why might people in the past have looked at the Waikato River? What resource does the river provide? How has that resource been used?
How has power generation helped all of us? (work, leisure, income, other) Why have the "planners" looked at other forms of energy?
Where and what other forms of energy have they looked at, used, are planning to make use of?
Map of hydro stations that you can download.
Key words you need to find out about:
resource *power *generation *energy *renewable *hydro
*dam *geothermal *solar *turbine
You need to know what the water cycle is: Water Cycle
Questions to think about:
Why is there a need for power generation?
Where did this need come from?
Why did it exist and why does it still exist now?
Why might people in the past have looked at the Waikato River?
What resource does the river provide? How has that resource been used?
How has power generation helped all of us? (work, leisure, income, other)
Why have the "planners" looked at other forms of energy?
Where and what other forms of energy have they looked at, used, are planning to make use of?