Nature of Sound

Sound is a 

• Transverse Wave
• Combined Wave
• Seismic Wave
• Longitudinal wave

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Soundwave begins with a/an

• echo
• interference
• back and forth vibration
• wave

Sound wave needs a _________ to travel through

• medium
• space
• vaccum

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Sound waves can travel through ________, __________ and ________.

• space and vacuum
• solids, liquids and gases
• echo, diffraction and interference.

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Is the following sentence true or false?
Sound waves can travel only through air.

• False
• True

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Reflected sound wave is called

• diffraction
• interference
• big wave
• echo

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When sound waves bump into one another, it is called a/ an

• interference
• collision
• diffraction

The speed of sound depends on the 

• the nature of the medium
• elasticity, density, and temperature of the medium
• density of the medium

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Sound travels at different speeds in different mediums. That is why it travels

• faster in gases than in solids.
• faster in solids than in gases.
• faster in liquids than in gases

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Sound travels faster in mediums that are

• more denser
• very cold
• elastic