Sound Vocabulary Quiz 1

What is sound?

• A. a very bright light that shines through a prism

• B. energy created by waves from vibrations of matter

• C. to move quickly back and forth

• D. annoying country music

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What does vibrations mean?

• A. perfect stillness

• B. all the good energy

• C. the act of moving quickly back and forth

• D. the strength or loudness of a sound wave

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Which one defines absorb?

• A. take in

• B. to shine light on

• C. what sound travels through

• D. area with no matter

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What does transmit mean?

• A. take in

• B. to transform into another thing

• C. make it all the way

• D. go through

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Define volume (for our unit of SOUND in science).

• A. a book forming part of a work or series

• B. the amount of space that a substance or object occupies

• C. the strength or loudness of a sound wave -- measured in decibels

• D. what sound travels through

Define sound wave.

• A. Energy from a vibration that travels in series of compressions (like waves)

• B. when you yell loudly while waving to your friend

• C. the loud crashing waves at the beach

• D. to move quickly back and forth

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Which is the definition for medium?

• A. how high or low a sound is

• B. not too big, not too small

• C. what sound travels through (solid, liquid or gas)

• D. to move quickly back and forth

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Which one defines vacuum for our sound unit?

• A. area with no matter (sound cannot travel through)

• B. area with lots of particles in the air

• C. how high or low a sound is

• D. what sound travels through

Which one defines pitch, as we use it in our sound unit?

• A. Energy from a vibration that travels in series of compressions (like waves)

• B. the strength or loudness of a sound wave -- measured in decibels

• C. when you throw the ball right into the strike zone

• D. how high or low a sound is (the greater the frequency - vibrations per second - the higher the pitch)