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