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Data Representation - Sound and Compression

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the sample rate?

a)

The number of times a sound wave is sampled per second

b)

The number of bits used to store each sample

c)

How loud a sound is

d)

The size of the sound wave

2.

What is sample rate measure in?

a)

Bits

b)

Hertz

c)

GB

d)

amps

3.

What is sample resolution?

a)

The number of bits used to store each sample

b)

The number of times a wave is sampled

c)

How loud a sound is

d)

How quiet a sound is

4.

What is used to convert a sound wave in to a digital format?

a)

A sound wave converter

b)

A router

c)

An amplitude to digital converter

d)

Analogue to digital converter

5.

What is the formula for finding a sound files size?

a)

size = rate * resolution * seconds

b)

size = rate * resolution * minutes

c)

size = amplitude * bits * seconds

d)

size = sample * frequency * bits

6.

What is amplitude?

a)

Number of samples taken

b)

The number of bits per sample

c)

The height of the sound wave

d)

The pitch

7.
What is Pitch?
a)
How loud or soft a sound is
b)
muscle that holds vocal cords
c)
movement back and forth
d)
how high or low a sound is
8.
The most common sampling rate for sound files is 44.1 khz.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
Identify a false statement:
a)
Higher bit rates usually improve the sound quality and result in smaller file size.
b)
Higher bit rates usually improve the sound quality but result in larger file size.
c)
To record a sound into binary format, ADC will be applied rather than DAC.
10.
How is sound caused?
a)
By playing it through a hi-fi with speakers
b)
Vibrations travelling through air, water or metal.
11.
What is the difference between analogue and digital data?
a)
Analogue is continuous data, whereas digital signals have two values, 0 and 1.
b)
Analogue has two values 0 and 1, whereas digital is continuous data.
12.

A sound clip uses a sample rate of 4000Hz, an 8 bit sample resolution, and is 10 seconds long. What is the file size in bits?

a)

4,000

b)

32,000

c)

40,000

d)

320,000

13.

A continuously changing wave such as natural sound.

a)

Analogue

b)

Digital

c)

Binary

d)

Fluid

14.

The number of bits used to store each sound sample.

a)

Bit depth

b)

Bit rate

c)

Bit number

d)

Sound bits

15.

The unit of audio sampling rates.

a)

kHz

b)

KB

c)

KS

d)

KSz

16.

Amplitude is…

a)

The height, loudness of the sound

b)

The number of samples taken in a second

c)

is a code for representing English characters as numbers

17.
Identify a false statement:
a)
Higher bit rates usually improve the sound quality and result in smaller file size.
b)
Higher bit rates usually improve the sound quality but result in larger file size.
c)
To record a sound into binary format, ADC will be applied rather than DAC.
18.

What is the file size (in bits) of a sound with the following properties:


Sampling rate = 1,000Hz

Sample resolution = 16 bits

Length = 300 seconds

a)

480 bits

b)

4,800 bits

c)

408,000 bits

d)

4,800,000 bits

19.

A sound has a file size of 17, 640 kilobytes. How much would this be in megabytes?

a)

1.76 Mb

b)

17.64 Mb

c)

176.4 Mb

d)

1764 Mb

20.

What is the name of the process of capturing sound and converting it into digital form?

(a)