Unit 8: Illegal connections pg. 108

Question 1

How is electricity stolen every day?

Answer 1

People do it by connecting to the mains electricity without paying for it. They dig trenches and lay their own wires underground and then cover them up again, or they connect to the power lines overhead.

Question 2

Why are illegal connections are dangerous?

Answer 2

Illegal connections are dangerous because they connect to the main lines, sometimes before they have been stepped-down by the substation.

Question 3

List 2 reasons of what exposed wires could do.

Answer 3

1. They can KILL someone if touched

2. BURN or SCAR someone because of an electric shock.