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WorksheetsTIMSS - PHYSICS 3 - Light and Sound
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What shape does light travel in?
a)
Waves
b)
Circles
c)
Squares
d)
Diamonds
2.
Light is predictable because it will always travel in a _________ line.
a)
Curvy
b)
Straight
c)
Backwards
d)
Crazy
3.
What is the speed of light in air?
a)
140,000 miles/sec
b)
186,000 miles/sec
c)
60 miles/hour
d)
120 miles/hour
4.
What types of matter can light travel through?
a)
Some solids, liquids, gases and all empty space (vacuum)
b)
All solids, liquids, gases, and empty space (vacuum)
c)
Some solids, liquids, and gases
d)
Only empty space (vacuum)
5.
What does light do when it hits a smooth, flat surface?
a)
Reflect
b)
Refract
c)
Absorb
d)
Diffuse
6.
What does light do when it hits an object that it cannot pass through?
a)
It creates a shadow
b)
It passes through anyway
7.
What image shows light being refracted?
a)
b)
c)
d)
8.
What picture shows light being absorbed by what it shines on?
a)
b)
c)
d)
9.
White light is made up of _________________ colors.
a)
10
b)
3
c)
7
d)
70
10.
What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency?
As the wavelength becomes ___________frequency becomes ___________
As the wavelength becomes ___________frequency becomes ___________
a)
Longer, higher
b)
higher, longer
c)
shorter, longer
d)
higher, lower
11.
What is frequency?
a)
the number of vibrations per second
b)
how high or low a sound is
c)
the loudness or softness of a sound
d)
the back and forth movement of matter
12.
The measure of how high or low a sound is:
a)
the intensity
b)
the size of the wavelength
c)
how loud or soft a sound is
d)
the pitch
13.
Sound moves in a _________.
a)
Transverse wave
b)
Longitudinal wave
14.
List the order of mediums through which sound travels from fastest to slowest.
a)
Liquid, Gas, Solid
b)
Gas, Solid, Liquid
c)
Solid, Liquid, Gas
d)
Solid, Gas, Liquid
15.
Frequency is measured in ____
a)
meters
b)
hertz
c)
decibels
d)
seconds
16.
At what time does the maximum amplitude occur?
a)
0.02
b)
0.03
c)
74
d)
72
17.
Which of the graphs below has the highest maximum frequency?
a)
b)
c)
d)
18.
Sound is a kind of energy that moves in ______________
a)
waves
b)
space
19.
The quality of being high or low is a sound's __________________
a)
loudness
b)
amplitude
c)
frequency
d)
pitch
20.
____________________ is the distance between two crests
a)
wavelength
b)
amplitude
c)
trough
d)
frequency
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