WorksheetsLight & Sound Study Guide
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which object should Lexi place in front of her flashlight to signal "Hello" to her classmates?
Hudson needs to lower the pitch of the guitar to play his songs. How can he lower the pitch of the guitar?
make the strings
tighter so they
vibrate faster
make the strings
looser so they
vibrate faster
make the strings
tighter so they
vibrate slower
make the strings
looser so they
vibrate slower
Savannah is clapping her hands at a concert.
If she uses more force to clap her hands, the sound will most likely become
When Parker turns on the flashlight, which path is the light most likely to travel?
(the circles are holes in the cardboard)
A
B
C
D
Which object best reflects light?
What does it mean if an object is transparent?
Brooks held a smooth piece of aluminum foil near his face and could see himself.
Then, he crumpled up the foil, opened it back up, and looked at the foil again.
He could not see himself this time.
Why was Brooks unable to see himself in the crumpled piece of foil?
Light travels in waves. Which of the following statements about light waves is NOT true?
Which of these sounds has a high pitch?
Which of the following is required for sound?
chemicals
vibrations
water
instruments
What is the best description of why people can see themselves in a mirror?
Light comes out of the mirror and bounces off a person's eyes.
Light hits the mirror and it reflects light back into a person's eyes.
Light comes out of a person's eyes and bounces off the mirror.
Light goes through the mirror and hits a person's eyes on the other side.
What happens to light in an object that is transparent?
Light moves into the object and remains inside.
Light moves through the object and is scattered out.
Light moves around the object but does not go inside.
Light moves through the object without being scattered.
What happens to light in an object that is opaque?
Light enters the object and is scattered in different directions.
Light travels inside the object and remains trapped inside.
Light is not able to enter the object and will not shine through.
Light travels right through the object and is not scattered.
He looks in the mirror and sees his reflection.
Which of the following pictures best shows what his shirt looks like in the mirror?
A.
B.
C.
D.
What is true about objects that vibrate very quickly?
Which of the below statements describes a prism?
Gemma and Kailey are using a flashlight and mirrors to study light.
Gemma uses mirrors to change the direction of the light beam.
Kailey is confused. She thought light always travels in a straight line.
Which statement best describes what Kailey is forgetting?
Robbie is investigating what happens in a dark room
when he turns on his flashlight and passes the light beam through the room.
What will most likely happen if the light beam reaches a mirror?
Olivia and Fallon are partners in science class.
They have been asked to design a device that will communicate sound across a distance.
Olivia thinks their device would work best if they used some kind of solid object to transfer the sound across a distance. Fallon, on the other hand, thinks their device would work better if it used the air to transfer the sound.
Who is correct? Why?
A. Fallon because sound vibrations travel best through the particles in air
B. Olivia because sound vibrations cannot travel through the particles in air
C. Fallon because sound vibrations cannot travel through the particles in solids
D. Olivia because sound vibrations travel best through the particles in solids
