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Sound and Thermal Summative

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What form of energy vibrates and travels in waves?

a)

Sound

b)

Thermal (Heat)

c)

Chemical

d)

Mechanical

2.

What energy is Movement + Friction between two objects?

a)

Thermal

b)

Nuclear

c)

Sound

d)

Mechanical

3.

How is heat transferred?

a)

hot to cold

b)

cold to hot

c)

hot to hot

d)

cold to cold

4.

Touching a hot pan

a)

conduction

b)

convection

c)

radiation

5.

Heat from the sun

a)

conduction

b)

convection

c)

radiation

6.

Boiling water

a)

conduction

b)

convection

c)

radiation

7.

What is energy due to the motion of tiny particles within an object?

a)

Thermal (Heat) Energy

b)

Light Energy

c)

Sound Energy

d)

Mechanical Energy

8.

Sound waves travel through...

a)

a. solids

b)

b. liquids

c)

c. gases

d)

d. all of the above

9.

What is the measure of how high or how low a sound is?

a)

a. sound

b)

b. pitch

c)

c. amplitude

d)

d. echo

10.

What is a sound that bounces off hard surfaces called?

a)

a. a recording

b)

b. an echo

c)

c. a circuit

d)

d. a wavelength

11.

Which of the following sounds is very soft because of the small amplitude?

a)
b)
12.

Which of the following objects would transport sound the fastest

a)

Steel

b)

Wool

c)

Air

d)

Water

13.

What energy is Movement + Friction between two objects?

a)

Heat

b)

Nuclear

c)

Sound

d)

Mechanical

14.
The word volume shows how loud or ______ a noise is made.
a)
soft
b)
high
c)
low
d)
fast
15.
Pitch shows how _________ or low a sound is made.  
a)
soft
b)
loud
c)
high
d)
fun
16.

If you were to design an object to conduct heat, which material would you use?

a)

wood

b)

plastic

c)

metal

d)

fabric

17.
Andy stirred a hot drink in a styrofoam cup with a  metal spoon.  In what order did the thermal energy reach Andy's hand?
a)
cup-hot chocolate-hand
b)
hand-spoon-hot chocolate
c)
hot chocolate-spoon-hand
d)
hot chocolate-spoon-hand-cup
18.

___________________ are materials that ALLOW heat and electricity to move easily through them.

a)

Conductors

b)

Insulators

19.

______________ are materials that RESIST the flow of heat or thermal energy.

a)

Conductors

b)

Insulators

20.
A jacket is a good example of an . . .
a)
Insulator
b)
Investigator
c)
Conductor
d)
Interrogator