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Worksheets Name

Sound Energy
Class
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 9mins
Date
Instructor name: Ollyvian Ahab

1.

Sound travels through solids.

a) True b) False

2. 1. Sound can’t travel through liquids.

a) True b) False

3. 1. Without matter, sound waves could not travel.

a) False b) True

4. 1. Sound travels through gas.

a) True b) False

5. 1. Sound travels fastest through gases (air).

a) False b) True

6. 1. Sound can be transmitted through objects.

a) False b) True
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7. Sound is caused by?

a) vibrations b) force

c) instruments

8. I am an astronaut, floating in my spacesuit in outer space. I see another astronaut, floating in

her spacesuit. I want to communicate with her. Which method would be successful?

a) make a loud bang b) shout at her

c) run over to her d) shine a light in Morse code to represent

letters

9. Sound travels FASTEST through which of these materials?

a) Water b) Metal

c) Air d) Empty space

10.

Measure of how high or low a sound is

a) pitch b) compression

c) speed of sound d) amplitude

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11.

Which of the following best describes how a sound wave travels?

a) a car speeding up and down hills b) a marble dropped in a bowl of water

c) a baseball hit by a bat d) a branch moving back and forth

12.

The pitch of a stringed instrument can be affected by

a) the length of its strings b) the size of a player's fingers

c) how hard it is struck or plucked d) an object called a hammer

13.

Why does cupping your hands around your mouth when you shout make the sound travel
further?

a) Your voice gets louder. b) The sound energy is directed in one

direction.

c) The sound spreads out. d) You are screaming.

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14.

What would happen if you tighten the strings on a guitar?

a) it would make a high pitch sound b) it would make a low pitch sound

c) it produces low frequency d) it produces a slow vibrations

15. What is volume?

a) the loudness or softness of a sound b) vibrations

c) how high or low a sound is d) the number of vibrations per second

16.

What is frequency?

a) how high or low a sound is b) the loudness or softness of a sound

c) the back and forth movement of matter d) the number of vibrations per second

17. What is vibration?

a) how high or low a sound is b) how loud a sound is

c) the back and forth movement of matter d) the loudness or softness of a sound

18. What is pitch?

a) the number of vibrations per second b) how loud a sound is

c) the back and forth movement of matter d) how high or low a sound is

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19. What causes an echo?

a) sound waves bouncing off carpet b) sound waves bouncing off tables and
chairs

c) sound waves bouncing off large, hard d) you repeating yourself

surfaces

20. 1. Without matter, sound waves could not travel.

a) True b) False

21. From fastest to slowest, what is the order sound waves would travel through a medium?

a) solids, gases, then liquieds b) liquids, solids, then gases

c) gases, liquids, then solids d) solids, liquids, then gases

22. What determines the energy of a mechanical wave

a) speed b) frequency

c) wavelength d) amplitude

23. What are the two main types of mechanical waves?

a) longitudinal and transverse b) electromagnetic and mechanical

c) sound and light d) amplitude and frequency

24. What is necessary for a mechanical wave to travel

a) medium b) source

c) vacuum d) space

25. A student placed her ear on a student desk and listened to a second student tapping lightly on
the desk. The experiment was repeated with the same tapping but the first students kept her
ear 3 cm above the desk surface, and the sounds were different. What is the best explanation
for the different sounds?

a) There is no explanation for the change in b) The sound waves travel faster through the
sound. air than the desk

c) The sound waves travel slower through the d) The sound waves travel through the desk,
air than the desk. but not the air

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26. A sound wave is traveling through a medium. The intensity of the sound is most affected by
the

a) Transparency of the medium b) color of the medium

c) Material of the medium d) length of the medium

27. Placing your ear to the wall allows you to hear sounds from the next room more easily. This is
because

a) The wall supports your ear better b) sound is reflected by the walls

c) you are paying more attention d) The wall transmits sound better than air

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