REVIEW MATERIAL FOR QUIZ BEE 1.

What happens to the wavelength of a sound wave if both the

LRMDS: Sound Origin and Properties frequency and the velocity of sound are reduced to one-half?
a. It is halved.
PART A: b. It does not change.
1. Which of the following produce sound? c. It becomes twice as large.
a. soft objects d. It is reduced to one fourth.
b. radio stations
c. vibrating objects 2. Sound waves travel faster in water than in air because water
d. objects under pressure has a greater _______.
a. density. b. elasticity
2. Compared to the speed of light, sound travels ___________. c. number of molecules. d. volume.
a. faster.
b. slower. 3. A high frequency sound has _____________.
c. at the same speed. a. low pitch. b. high pitch.
d. There is not enough information to compare the two. c. low energy. d. a and c

3. Which of the following would be most likely to transmit sound 4. The part of the ear where sound energy is converted to electrical
the best? impulses and sent to the brain as nerve pulses is the ______.
a. steel in cabinet a. tympanum b. cochlea
b. water in the ocean c. ear canal d. auditory nerve
c. air in your classroom
d. water in a swimming pool 5. Sound waves travel fastest in _____________.
a. vacuum. b. air.
4. Resonance occurs when you _________________. c. liquids. d. solids.
a. push an object.
b. vibrate an object. 6. On which area will we not be able to hear any sound?
c. hit an object with a hammer. a. a theater b. a closed room
d. force the object to vibrate at its natural frequency. c. in the outer space d. in a spaceship

5. Beats can be heard when two tuning forks ______________. 7. Compared to a thin string of the same length and tightness a
a. are sounded together thick string produces sounds of ____________.
b. have the same frequency and are sounded together a. the same pitch b. lower pitch
c. have almost the same frequency and are sounded together c. higher pitch d. lower then higher pitch
d. All of the above
8. When is sound transmitted faster?
6. An echo occurs when ______________. a. during winter
a. sound is reflected from a distant surface. b. during summer
b. sound is transmitted through a surface. c. There is no relation between season and sound transmission
c. the sound waves are very large. d. There is not enough information to say
d. All of the above
9. A sound wave is a _____________.
7. What is the main reason why you can hear noises a long a. longitudinal wave b. transverse wave
distance away over water at night? c. standing wave d. shock wave
a. There are fewer other noises at night.
b. Water conducts sound better at night. 10. Which of the following is NOT capable of transmitting sound?
c. Sound bounces off water better at night a. air b. water
d. Sound waves are bent towards the cool air over the water. c. steel d. a vacuum

8. A sound wave is a _______________.

a. shock wave. PART C:
b. standing wave. 1. A Doppler Effect occurs when a source of sound waves moves
c. transverse wave. _________.
d. longitudinal wave. a. towards you
b. away from you
9. The speed of sound wave depends on ______________. c. parallel with you
a. pitch. d. Needs more information to say.
b. loudness.
c. temperature. 2. An observer on the ground hears a sonic boom which is created
d. None of the above by an airplane flying at a speed ______________.
a. just below the speed of sound
10. Sound waves cannot travel in ______________. b. equal to the speed of sound
a. air c. greater than the speed of sound
b. water d. much lower than the speed of sound
c. steel
d. vacuum 3. An aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound is said to be
____________.
a. subsonic
PART B: b. supersonic
c. Neither of the above
d. Need more information to say. 14. When a wave passes through an opening, some of the waves
are bent, this phenomenon is called _____________.
4. The speed of a sound wave depends on ____________. a. reflection
a. its frequency b. refraction
b. its wavelength c. interference
c. the air temperature d. diffraction
d. All of the above
15. Constructive interference occurs when ____________.
5. Sound travels faster in air if the air is _____________. a. two crests meet
a. warm b. a crest and a trough meet
b. cold c. Need more information to say
c. Neither warm nor cold
d. Either warm or cold 16. Destructive interference occurs when____________.
a. two crests meet
6. The phenomenon of beats results from sound ____________. b. a crest and a trough meet
a. refraction c. need more information to say
b. reflection
c. interference 17. Who is the inventor of a telegraph?
d. All of the above a. William Thomson
b. William Sturgeon
7. The singer, Caruso, is said to have made a crystal chandelier c. Joseph Henry
shatter with his voice. This is a demonstration of ____________. d. Alexander Graham Bell
a. beats
b. an echo 18. Morse’ code is a communicating system which uses a device
c. resonance known as ____________.
d. sound refraction a. telephone
b. megaphone
8. When the handle of a tuning fork is held solidly against a table, c. telegraph
the sound becomes louder and the length of time the fork vibrates d. cell phone
____________.
a. becomes longer 19. Which the following is the correct description of a telephone?
b. becomes shorter a. A device that allows two people from different places to
c. remains the same communicate through
d. becomes slower the transfer of mechanical energy.
b. A device that allows two people from different places to
9. In which of the following does sound travel fastest? communicate through
a. Ice the transfer of electrical pulses.
b. Steam c. A device that depends on Morse’s code for transfer of
c. Water information
d. Sound travels at the same speed in each of the above. d. None of the above.

10. Inhaling helium increases the pitch of your voice because 20. If the sounding board were removed out of a music box, it
sound travels _____________. would ____________.
a. slower in helium a. sound the same as usual
b. faster in helium b. not sound at all
c. at the same speed in helium, but the wavelength is shorter c. make little “plinks” that you could hardly hear.
d. towards you d. Need more information to say.

11. As you get farther and farther from a point source of waves,
the wave fronts appear ____________.
a. louder
b. flatter
c. the same as when they were first created
d. None of the above

12. In which of the following will we encounter a higher pitched

sound?
a. a high-frequency sound
b. a low frequency sound
c. frequency is not related to sound.
d. Not enough information to say

13. An interference pattern is produced when ____________

a. the crest of two waves meet
b. the troughs of two waves meet
c. two or more waves meet
d. wave passes through two narrow slits