Properties of Sound Waves

What is frequency?

• amount of time it takes a wave to travel.
• how much pitch a wave has.
• number of wavelengths that occur in a period of time.
• how large the amplitude of a wave is.

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What do sound waves need in order to travel?

• vibrations
• medium
• solids
• someone to make them

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Why does sound travel better trough solids and not gases?

• the particles are closer together
• gases don't have particles
• just because

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Sound is a kind of energy that moves in ______________

• waves
• space

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All sounds are made by ____________________ objects

• still
• vibrating

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Sound waves, like waves in a pond, move ______________ in circles from their source.

• inward
• outward

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True or False:  Energy does not move in waves.

• True
• False

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True or False:  You cannot see sound waves.

• True
• False

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The quality of being high or low is a sound's __________________

• loudness
• amplitude
• frequency
• pitch

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Waves with a high frequency have a ________________ sound

• high
• soft
• low
• amplitude

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