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Sound, Energy, Waves
Contributed by: Jeffcott
(Original author: Messer)
  • 1. Sound is or are
A) Captured in our Ears
B) All of these are correct
C) Waves
D) Energy
E) Vibrations
  • 2. Sound travels through _______________ which the vibration compresses
A) Atoms
B) Substances
C) Matter
D) Anti-Matter
E) None of these
  • 3. Sound travels through waves called
A) Transverse Waves
B) Up and Down Waves
C) Sea Waves
D) Longitudinal
E) Doppler Waves
  • 4. Compressional waves travel in
A) In many different directions at the same time
B) No direction at all they don't move
C) The same direction as the Sound vibrations
D) The opposite direction as the sound vibrations
  • 5. The Doppler effect occurs when
A) There is a rainbow present in the sky.
B) The waves are really distorted in the front where the sound is and not in the back after the object moves away
C) A moving object is emitting sound continuously.
D) The waves are moving like the ripples in a pond from a rock
  • 6. Longitudinal Waves are waves that travel
A) Up and down like the waves of an ocean
B) Side to side in one direction
C) Side to side in two different directions at once
D) Only when there is very dense material around
  • 7. Sound waves CAN move in space
A) Both true and false
B) True
C) False
D) Neither true or false
  • 8. Sound vibrations travel best in
A) Liquids
B) Space
C) Gases
D) Solids
  • 9. An echo is
A) Sound that bounces in all directions
B) Sound bouncing back to you off a solid object
C) Sound that DOES NOT bounce back to you
D) A figment of your imagination
  • 10. Dolphins and Bats use what
A) Echo Detection
B) Echo Location
C) No Echos at all
D) Echo Reverberation
  • 11. Sound travels through
A) Density does not matter with sound
B) Denser material
C) Matter that has no density at all
D) Less Dense material
  • 12. The greatest distance the particles in a wave rise and fall from their rest position
A) Amplitude
B) Velocity
C) Hertz
D) Frequency
E) Intensity
  • 13. Means the same as one cycle of a wave
A) Frequency
B) Hertz
C) Velocity
D) Intensity
E) Amplitude
  • 14. Decibel is
A) The unit of measure used to gauge frequency
B) The unit of measure that is used to check wave length
C) The unit of measure to check tone quality
D) The unit of measure used to gauge the loudness
  • 15. Pitch is directly related to what?
A) It does not have a relation
B) Frequency
C) Decibels
D) Amplitude
E) Velocity
  • 16. Tone quality is the difference between the sounds of the SAME
A) Amplitude and Intensity
B) Pitch and Velocity
C) Velocity and Loudness
D) Pitch and Loudness
  • 17. At what decibel level for a continuous period does hearing loss occur?
A) 55 + dB
B) 85 + dB
C) 100 + dB
D) 90 + dB
E) 60 + dB
  • 18. You can still hear in space even if you scream
A) You can always hear no matter where you are
B) The only place in space that you can hear is the moon
C) True
D) Neither
E) False
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