Waves and Sound

What is it called when a sound wave is slowed by a new medium that it is passing through?

• echo

• transmission

• sonar

• absorption

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A fundamental tone is the loudest tone that is produced. For example if you pluck a guitar string the fundamental tone is the dominant note that you hear.

• True

• False

What is the distance to the ocean floor if sound traveling at 1500 meters per second makes the round trip to the bottom and back in 10 seconds.

• 7500 meters

• 15 meters

• 150.000 meters

• 150 meters

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Vibrations create_________

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Does light moves faster than sound?

• True

• False

Does an overtone occur when two or more sound waves are produced at the same time?

• True

• False

Sound travels________. Choose all that apply.

• Through mediums

• invisibly

• through space

• none of the above

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A room is acoustically alive if the room is in an open space where people can breathe.

• True

• False

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Transverse waves move in the same direction of the wave.

• True

• False

_____________ ____________move in a direction perpendicular to the force that created them.

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