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Guitar

(a) Julia is listening to Kumi playing his guitar.

He plucks a string.

What happens to the guitar string when it makes a sound?

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(b) Julia walks away from Kumi and leaves the room.

What happens to the loudness of the sound Julia hears as she goes further away
from Kumi?

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(c) Julia shuts the door. She can still hear Kumi playing his guitar in the next room.

One material the sound travels through is air.

Name ONE other material the sound must travel through for Julia to hear it.

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2. Sounds

(a) Ann clamped a ruler to a desk.

She pressed down on the ruler and then let it go.

Why was there a sound when Ann let go of the ruler?

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(b) Jack heard the sound.

What did the sound travel through to reach Jack’s ears?

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(c) Ann shortened the length of the ruler sticking out from the desk.

She let go of the ruler from the same position as before.

Describe how the sound was different.

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(d) Ann fixed a pen to the end of the ruler. Jack moved towards the table with a
piece of paper touching the pen. Jack moved steadily and Ann plucked the ruler
once.

Look at the pattern the pen made.

a b c

What happened to the loudness of the sound between a and b?

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(e) What does the pattern tell you about the sound at point c?

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(f) Explain your answer to part (e).

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3. Sounds

(a) Two girls put different amounts of coloured water in four bottles.

They made sounds by blowing across the top of each bottle.

When they blew, which bottle made the highest note?

Bottle ..................... made the highest note.

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(b) The girl plucked an elastic band. It made a sound.

Explain why the elastic band made a sound when it was plucked.

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4. Sounds

Some children were playing musical instruments.

(a) Give ONE way a drum makes a sound when it is hit.

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(b) The windows were closed. The children working outside could still hear
the sound of the drums.

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 The sound reached these children’s ears by travelling through the air and
through the:

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5. Sound

(a) Carina makes a drum by stretching a balloon over the top of a jam jar.

She hits the stretched balloon with a beater.

It makes a sound.

What does the sound travel through to reach Carina’ s ears?

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(b) She pulls the balloon more tightly over the jar.

This changes the pitch of the sound.

(i) Describe what pitch means.

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(ii) How does the pitch change when the balloon is tighter?

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66. Sounds

(a) Jane hits a drum with a beater.

Tom can hear the sound.

Tom

Jane
rice

drum

What did the sound travel through to reach Tom’s ears?

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(b) When Jane hits her drum, it vibrates. The vibrations travel to Tom’s drum.
Then the rice on his drum moves.

Jane makes a flow chart. It shows the most direct path of the vibrations from
her drum to the rice.

Choose TWO objects from the box below to complete Jane’s flow chart.

the a ir the bea ter

the floor
Tom 's drum Jane's arm

Flow chart showing direct path of vibrations

Ja ne 's
rice
d rum
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(c) Tom wants to find out if he can hear the sound of Jane’s drum from
different distances. Sound m eter scale

Jane hits her drum hard. Tom stands one metre away.
He uses a sound meter to measure the loudness of the sound.

They repeat their test at different distances.

Here are their results.
quiet loud

Distance betw een Sound Sound meter

Jane and Tom
(m ) Tom hears scale

1 ve ry lou d

25 lo ud

50 qu iet

1 00 very q uiet

Describe how the loudness of the sound depends on the distance

between Jane and Tom.

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7. Sounds

(a) John makes a musical instrument using 5 sticks and a block of wood.

To make a sound, he pushes a stick down and lets it go.

Explain why the stick makes a sound.

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(b) How can he make the sound louder?

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1 2 3 4 5

(c) John finds that stick 5 makes the highest note.

Describe how the length of the stick affects the pitch of the note.

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(d) Susan puts her ear on the plastic table as John makes a sound.

She hears the musical instrument.

It sounds louder.

Complete the sentence below to explain how the sound reaches Susan's ear.

Tick ONE box.

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 The sound travels through…

air only.

wood and air only.

wood, air and plastic.

wood only.

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8. Sound

(a) Nuala plays a drum.

She hits the skin of the drum with a drum-stick.

What is happening to the skin of the drum when it is making a sound?

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(b) Nuala uses the drum-stick to hit the skin of the drum in different ways.

Describe how the loudness of the sound is affected by the force of the stick
hitting the drum.

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(c) The children turn the screws on the side of the drum to make the skin
less tight.

What effect does this have on the pitch of the sound the drum makes when
Nuala hits it?

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(d) The children in the class listen to the sound the drum makes.

What does the sound travel through to get from the drum to their ears?

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