Properties of Sound

What is frequency?

• the number of vibrations per second

• how high or low a sound is

• the loudness or softness of a sound

• the back and forth movement of matter

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What is sound?

• Vibrations caused in the vacuum of space

• Vibrations of matter

• A transverse wave

• A type of electromagnetic wave

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The measure of how high or low a sound is:

• the intensity

• the size of the wavelength

• how loud or soft a sound is

• the pitch

Which of the following is a CORRECT statement?

• Sound can travel through the vacuum of space

• Sound can't travel through the vacuum of space

• Sound is produced in the vacuum of space

• Sound can travel between planets

Sound moves in a _________.

• Transverse wave
• Longitudinal wave

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You can increase pitch by:

• Adding more water to a beaker

• Decreasing the water in a beaker

• Taking the water out of the beaker

List the order of mediums through which sound travels from fastest to slowest.

• Liquid, Gas, Solid

• Gas, Solid, Liquid

• Solid, Liquid, Gas

• Solid, Gas, Liquid

Frequency is measured in ____

• meters

• hertz

• decibels

• seconds

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Another word for intensity is ________, and it is measured in ___________

• Frequency, decibels

• Amplitude, hertz

• Amplitude, decibels

• Frequency, hertz

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The higher the_______ , the higher the ________ .

• frequency, pitch
• frequency, volume
• sound, pitch
• wavelength, decibels