Sound energy

What type of energy is a stretched rubber band?

• kinetic

• potential

What type of energy are in chemical bonds?

• kinetic

• potential

True or false... bouncing a basketball is considered elastic potential energy

• true

• false

What is a vibration

• the peak of a wave

• the bottom of a wave

• the quick back and forth movement

• the distance between two points of a wave

true or false... sound can only travel through gases

• true

• false

Answer explanation

sound can travel through solids, liquids and gases

true or false... sound can travel through empty space, like in outer space.

• true

• false

Answer explanation

light can travel through outer space, not sound. Sound is particles that are compressing and then spreading out again. Therefore, if there are no particles, then sound cannot travel.

All sounds are made by ............. objects.

• warm

• cold

• vibrating

Sound is a kind of energy that travels in ..............

• waves

• current

• group

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.............. is measure of how high or low a sound is.

• Pitch

• Temperature

• Length

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NGSS.4-PS4-1

Sound waves cannot travel through ...................

• solid

• liquid

• space

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