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Light & Sound Study Set

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How does Light Travel?

a)

A usage of salt and water

b)

Bouncing of sound waves

c)

In straight lines: a term called rays

d)

By walking

2.

What are the parts to a Transverse Wave?

a)

Crest, Wavelength, & trough

b)

Crest, Amplitude, & Trough

c)

Head, Knees, & toes

d)

Wavelength, Crest, & length

3.

How would you explain the movement of Sound?

4 lines
4.

What is Reflection?

a)

The movement of water

b)

The exact formula of pi.

c)

The amplitude of a sound wave.

d)

The bouncing of Light off a surface. Objects are mostly smooth or shiny.

5.

What is Refraction?

a)

The bouncing of objects

b)

The bouncing of sound

c)

When an object looks like it's in two places at once: Light Bending

d)

Light Bouncing

6.

Which of these are examples of NATURAL LIGHT?

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

What is an example of natural light?

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8.

What is Sound?

a)

Sound, is the movement of dirt

b)

Sound, is the movement of Sound Waves that move in a motion that bounces off objects.

c)

Sound, is nothing. It has no meaning.

d)

All of the above.

9.

What are the parts of a Soundwave?

a)

Wavelength, Refraction, Defraction

b)

Wavelength, Rarefaction, & Compression

c)

Wavelength, Pulley, Defaction

d)

Wavelength, Amplitude, Detraction

10.

True or False: Does a Prism show all of the visible spectrum colors due to the white light refracting/bending?

a)

True

b)

False

11.

True or False: Light is always made my people.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

What are Compression Waves?

a)

Sound waves that are open and long in different areas

b)

An area where Molecules are closest together

c)

Giant waves moving back and forth

d)

Waves that show the direction a sound wave is traveling

13.
Sound moves in a _________.
a)
Transverse wave
b)

Compression wave

14.

Which wave has a higher frequency?

a)

blue wave

b)

red wave

15.

What is Echolocation?

a)

The way bats fly.

b)

The noise dolphins make underwater.

c)

High-frequency sounds

d)

The way people eat.

16.

Which statement is correct about Matter?

a)

Solids transmit sound better than liquids

b)

Solids transmit better than gases

c)

Liquids transmit sound better than gases.

d)

Bats transmit sounds better than dolphins.

17.

What is Amplitude?

a)

Amplitude, is the way bats travel

b)

Amplitude, is associated with matter

c)

Amplitude, is associated with volume

18.

Which wave will have a higher pitch?

a)

B

b)

A

c)

AB

19.
What kind of wave is pictured?
a)
Transverse Wave
b)

Human Chain Wave

c)

Compressional wave

d)

None of the Above

20.

Sound travels fastest in...

a)

solids

b)

liquids

c)

gases

d)

Humans

21.

Sound waves travel the slowest through _____________.

a)

gases

b)

solids

c)

liquids

22.
Sound is caused by....
a)
molecules
b)
vibrations
c)

Making a tuning fork

d)

Space Exploration

23.

BONUS QUESTION: Which ones are solids, liquids, & gases?

a)
b)
c)
d)
24.

True or False:

Echolocation is used by animals

a)

True

b)

False

25.
How is sound produced?
a)
By the vibration of particles
b)

By the transferring of particles