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- 1. Multiple Choice
Gia bangs on a drum and makes it vibrate. When she places her hand on the drum, the vibration stops. What happens to the sound of the drum?
The sound stops due to the vibration stopping.
The sound stops because sound cannot travel through her hand.
The sound is clearer because the vibrations have halted.
The sound becomes a lower pitch due to the vibrations stopping.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which form of energy is the result of vibrations traveling through the air?
wind energy
electrical energy
solar energy
sound energy
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is one way to increase the pitch of a sound?
Make the object vibrate faster.
Make the object vibrate slower.
Make the object vibrate louder.
Make the object vibrate softer.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Jonathan conducted an experiment where he hit a drum. When the drum was struck, salt flew into the air. What is the best reasoning for this?
Vibrating objects make sound.
Movement does not require energy.
Sound can change into wind energy.
Vibrating objects do not change their pitch or volume.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What will happen if you pluck a guitar string with more force?
The pitch will get higher.
The pitch will get lower.
The volume will get louder.
The volume will get softer.
- 6. Multiple ChoiceLeGacey puts her ear against a door and hears sounds from the other side of the door. What happens when sound waves travel through a material, such as a door?They vibrate the particles in the materialThey stop vibratingThey change volumeNone of the other answer choices
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhich form of energy is carried only by vibrations through air, water, or other form of matter?Sound energyLight energyMechanical energyElectrical energy
- 8. Multiple ChoiceEdward plucks the string of his guitar. Each of the strings has the same thickness and length, but a different tightness. Which statement correctly describes how the guitar strings will sound?The tightest string will make the highest sound. The loosest string will make the lowest sound.The tightest string will make the softest sound. The loosest string will make the loudest sound.The tightest string will make the loudest sound. The loosest string will make the softest sound.The tightest string will make the lowest sound. The loosest string will make the highest sound.
- 9. Multiple Choice
It is the loudness or softness of sound.
volume
pitch
echo
sound waves
- 10. Multiple Choice
Sound waves cannot travel through
Liquid
Gas
Solid
Space
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat can sound travel through?only through aironly through wateronly through solids and liquidsthrough solids, liquids, and gases
- 12. Multiple ChoiceA bird chirping is an example of a ______ sound.high pitchlow pitchhigh volumelow volume
- 13. Multiple ChoiceHow can you make a sound louder?move away from the sounduse more energy to create the sounduse less energy to make the sounduse a smaller number of objects to create the sound
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhich terms refers to how high or low a sound seems to a person?LoudnessIntensityFrequencyPitch
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhat is vibration?how loud a sound isthe back and forth movement of matterhow high or low a sound isthe loudness or softness of a sound
- 16. Multiple Choice
Measure of how high or low a sound isamplitudecompressionspeed of soundpitch - 17. Multiple ChoiceA longer string makes a _______ pitch than a short string.loudersofterhigherlower
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhy do we not hear sound in outer space?there is no one out there to hear it.it is so coldit is a vacuum or empty space so there is not a medium for sound to travelthere are too many stars that are exploding
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe ___________________ is how loud or soft a sound is.echofrequencypitchvolume
- 20. Multiple ChoiceIn which medium will sound travel slowest?airwaterglasssalt water
- 21. Multiple ChoiceMeasure of how high or low a sound isamplitudecompressionspeed of soundpitch
- 22. Multiple ChoiceThe pitch of a stringed instrument can be affected byan object called a hammerthe size of a player's fingersthe length of its stringshow hard it is struck or plucked
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhat would happen if you tighten the strings on a guitar?it would make a low pitch soundit would make a high pitch soundit produces a slow vibrationsit produces low frequency
- 24. Multiple ChoiceWhat is volume?how high or low a sound isthe loudness or softness of a soundthe number of vibrations per secondvibrations
- 25. Multiple ChoiceAll sounds are made by ____ objects.warmcoldreflectingvibrating
- 26. Multiple ChoiceThe farther away you are from a sound, the ___ the sound will be.softerlouderhigherlower
- 27. Multiple ChoiceHow can you create a low pitch sound on a violin?Pluck the thinnest stringPluck all the strings once togetherPluck the thickest stringPlay the guitar
- 28. Multiple ChoiceYeli was at Busch Gardens. She heard an a girl scream on one of the rides. What did the pitch of her voice sound like and why?The pitch was high because her vocal chords vibrated quicklyThe pitch was low because her vocal chords vibrated slowly.The pitch was high because her vocal chords vibrated slowly.The pitch was low because her vocal chords vibrated slowly.
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