Modeling Waves through Mediums

What medium does sound travel through slowest?

• gas
• solid
• liquid
• trees

Why is sound able to travel faster through a solid than a gas?

• Gas molecules are packed tightly.
• Sound does not travel faster through a solid than a gas.
• Solid molecules are packed tightly.
• Gas molecules move slowly.

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Sound travels the FASTEST through _____________, SLOWER through ______________ and SLOWEST through _________________.

• liquids, solids, gases

• solids, gases, liquids

• solids, liquids, gases

• gases, liquids, solids

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Which of the following can sound travel through?

• solid
• liquid
• gas
• all of the above

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What is a medium?

• something between a small and a large?
• the substance through which a wave can travel
• a pattern of vibration that simulates when a wave is standing still
• the distance from any point on a wave to an identical point on the next wave

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A mechanical wave cannot travel through...

• a vacuum(empty space).
• water.
• air. 
• glass.

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Without matter, sound waves could not travel.

• True
• False

15. A wave interaction in which a wave bounces off a surface that it does not go through is called

• absorption.
• reflection.
• transmission.
• diffraction.

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A wave that can travel with or without a medium is called a(n)

• electromagnetic wave

• mechanical wave

• surface wave

• all waves can travel in any way

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A reflected sound wave

• frequency
• pitch
• echo
• rarefaction

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