Question

Application Question: In Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, it is common for members of the Amish community to use wind mills to pump water from underground to fill a tank for drinking water. The wind causes the turbine blades to spin, rotating a shaft, which is transferred through some gears to operate a pump that is plugged in to an outlet, which pumps water up from deep below the ground to fill an above ground tank. Identify the energy conversions happening in the fill in the blank question on the right.
Word bank (not all words will be used): sound, light, thermal, nuclear, elastic, gravitational, kinetic, electrical
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Wind blows (--------- energy) causing the turbine to turn, which rotates the shaft and allows the water pump (-----------) to work. The pump causes the water to move up from the well ( energy) where the water is stored in a tank that is positioned 5 feet above the ground (gravitational potential energy).

Answer 1

Answer:

The wind blows wind energy causing the turbine to turn,  the rotating shaft works the pump making mechanical energy.

The motion of water moving up from a well is kinetic energy.

Water in the tank, which is positioned 5 feet above the ground level is potential energy

Explanation:

The wind has in it wind energy which is then used to rotate the turbine shaft which is a form of mechanical work and hence possess mechanical energy

Moving water possesses kinetic energy and when this water is kept at some height it possesses potential energy