Sound Waves

You and your father inspect an empty house with the hopes of buying it. You walk through the rooms talking to one another, and you notice that your voices and footsteps are echoing in the big, empty house. What causes the echo?

• sound waves reflecting off smooth, flat surfaces throughout the house
• sound waves moving around the large rooms
• sound waves moving slowly through air
• sound waves refracting around corners in the empty rooms

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Cletus wants to make ear protectors for people who work around loud jet engines at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta. Which of the following materials should he experiment with for the best results?

• a material that produces sound
• a material that absorbs sound
• a material that transmits sound
• a material that amplifies sound

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As the fire truck approached Mary, the pitch of the siren got higher. Once the fire truck passed and moved away, the siren's pitch got lower. This change in pitch is because of a change in the sound wave's

• concussion. 
• amplitude. 
• reflection.
• frequency. 

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Which surface is the best reflector of sound? 

• bumpy and soft
• smooth and soft
• smooth and hard
• bumpy and hard

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Which statement about sound waves is true? 

• Air travels with them
• They travel through a vacuum
• They exist only if heard
• They can be reflected. 

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What does the motion of the source of a sound cause? 

• resonance
• shock waves
• the Doppler effect
• echolocation

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After the train passed, the pitch of the train whistle became lower. This change in sound would be represented by what change in the diagram above? 

• The distance represented by C would increase. 
• The distance represented by C would decrease. 
• The distance represented by D would increase. 
• The distance represented by D would decrease. 

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Which of the following would you hear as a low pitched sound? 

• sound wave with a frequency of 50 Hz
• sound wave with frequency of 10,000 Hz
• sound wave with an intensity of 10 dB
• sound wave with an intensity of 100 dB

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A tuning fork with a frequency of 404 Hertz is struck with a soft hammer. The fork is struck a second time by the same hammer with twice as much force, and the volume, or amplitude, increases by a factor of two. What will the frequency of the second sound be? 

• 101 Hz
• 202 Hz
• 404 Hz
• 808 Hz

If distance C on the diagram increased, what would happen to the pitch? 

• The pitch would be louder. 
• The pitch would be softer. 
• The pitch would be higher. 
• The pitch would be lower. 

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