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Light and Sound IPC

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of light is made by heating a piece of metal until it glows?

a)

Transparent light

b)

Opaque light

c)

Incandescent light

2.

What is an image that looks closer or farther than it actually is because of warm or cool layers of air near the ground?

a)

Mirage

b)

Coherent light

c)

Polarized light

3.

What does transparent mean?

a)

You can see through it clearly

b)

You can see only dark shapes through it

c)

You cannot see through it at all

4.

What word means a material absorbs some colors and reflects others?

a)

Holography

b)

Transparent

c)

Pigment

5.

What does translucent mean?

a)

You can see some things through a material

b)

You can see nothing though a material

c)

You can see clearly through a material

6.

What is the light that uses ultraviolet radiation to cause a light bulb to grow?

a)

Fluorescent light

b)

Incoherent light

c)

Reflection

7.

What is a material that absorbs or reflects all light?

a)

Transparent

b)

Translucent

c)

Opaque

8.

What happens when light strikes a surface between two materials and completely reflects back into the first material?

a)

Reflection

b)

Incandescent light

c)

Fluorescent light

9.

What is the change in pitch or frequency that occurs when the source of sound wave is moving toward or away from the observer?

a)

Acoustics

b)

Doppler effect

c)

Overtone

10.

How do humans perceive sound intensity?

a)

Loudness

b)

Pitch

c)

Sonar

11.

How do we describe the differences among sounds having the same pitch and loudness?

a)

Music

b)

Resonator

c)

Quality

12.

What is the study of sound?

a)

Acoustics

b)

Ultrasonic

c)

Cochlea

13.

What is part of the ear that vibrates and passes the wave energy into the middle ear?

a)

Eardrum

b)

Decibel

c)

Resonator

14.

What do we call sounds created in specific pitches and sound quality in a set pattern?

a)

Doppler effect

b)

Sonar

c)

Music

15.

What is the spiral-shaped, fluid filled structure in the inner ear that converts sound waves to nerve impulses?

a)

Echolocation

b)

Intensity

c)

Cochlea

16.

When objects are located by sound waves sent, then they bounce back, they are interpreted as ___________________.

a)

Echolocation

b)

Eardrum

c)

Quality

17.

The unit that measures sound intensity with the letter dB is called _______________.

a)

Sonar

b)

Decibel

c)

Echolocation

18.

What is the amount of energy a sound wave carries and it can be measured in dB?

a)

Time

b)

Intensity

c)

Sonar

19.

The high or low of sound based on frequency of the sound waves is ______________.

a)

Cochlea

b)

Eardrum

c)

Pitch

20.

A range of sound waves with frequencies so high you cannot hear them, above 20,000 Hz is called __________.

a)

Pitch

b)

Loudness

c)

Ultrasonic

21.

What is prolonged sound by reflection from a surface or by the matching sound waves of a neighboring object?

a)

Resonance

b)

Loudness

c)

Transparent