Sound & Light Review Quiz

True or False: Light travels in transverse waves and does not need a medium through which to move.

• True

• False

Choose the material that is not transparent

• White plastic milk bottle

• Clear plastic water bottle

• Plastic food wrap

• Air inside the refrigerator

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Which statement correctly identifies how a sound wave travels through air?

• The wave carries molecules away from the source of the sound.

• The wave carries energy that causes molecules to move back and forth.

• The wave carries a molecule in one direction until it collides with another.

• The wave moves through the air and gains energy from the moving molecules it touches.

Which option lists the answer choices in the correct order? 

• sound, vibrates, mechanical

• vibrates, mechanical, sound

• mechanical, sound, vibrates

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Through which medium would sound travel more quickly?

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• 
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The speed of a sound wave varies as it travels through difference substances. Which factor will MOST affect the speed of a sound wave?

• the frequency of the sound wave

• the source that created the sound

• the distance between molecules in the medium

• The wavelength of the sound wave

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The difference between transparent and translucent is...

• transparent lets some light through and translucent lets all light through

• transparent lets all light through and translucent lets some light through

• neither answer is true

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Evaluate the situation below. At which distance will the piano be the loudest to the student?

• 3

• 2

• 1

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A whistle produces sound because blowing air in the whistle causes

• the air inside the whistle to be absorbed

• the air inside the whistle to vibrate

• the air inside the whistle to heat up and expand

• the whistle to shake

Sound travels faster through solids than air because the molecules in the solid are

• closer together than in air molecules

• more easily moved than in air molecules

• larger than air molecues

• faster than air molecules

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