Sound Waves Quiz

What causes sound?

• Cells

• Vibrations

• Force

• Gravity

What is the amplitude of a sound wave?

• The height of the wave.

• The center of the wave.

• How often the wave repeats.

• The shape of the wave.

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What is the frequency of a sound wave?

• The height of the wave.

• The center of the wave.

• How often the wave repeats.

• The shape of the wave.

What does the amplitude of a sound wave affect?

• Where the sound is coming from.

• How loud or quiet the sound is.

• How high or low pitch it sounds.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What does the frequency of a sound wave affect?

• Where the sound is coming from.

• How loud or quiet the sound is.

• How high or low pitch it sounds.

Put these sound waves in order from quietest to loudest.

• Red, Blue, Green

• Blue, Red, Green

• Green, Blue, Red

• Red, Green, Blue

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Put these graphs in order from lowest frequency to highest frequency.

• Yellow, Blue, Green

• Blue, Yellow, Green

• Green, Yellow, Blue

• Blue, Green, Yellow

Which of these waves would be loud and high pitch?

• Blue

• Green

• Yellow

• Red

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Which of these waves would be quiet and low pitch?

• Blue

• Green

• Yellow

• Red

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Which of these sentences correctly describes what happens when a sound (like a siren) goes past you?

• The pitch gets higher as it approaches, then lower as it leaves.

• The pitch gets lower as it approaches, then higher as it leaves.

• The pitch stays the same, but the volume gets louder.

• The volume gets quieter as it approaches, then louder as it leaves.