Sound & Communication Vocabulary Quiz

What is a vibration?

• A type of music

• A back-and-forth movement

• A way to see light

• A silent sound

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What do we hear when something vibrates?

• Water

• Wind

• Sound

• Electricity

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What is compression in sound waves?

• A quiet place

• A stretched-out wave

• A squeezed-together part of the wave

• A wave that disappears

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What is rarefaction?

• A loud noise

• The stretched-out part of a sound wave

• A type of sound

• A broken wave

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What does amplitude measure?

• The speed of light

• How tall a wave is, or how loud a sound is

• How short a wave is

• The color of a wave

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What is pitch?

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What is ultrasound?

• Sound we can see

• Sound too low to hear

• Sound too high for humans to hear

• Sound that comes from underwater

What is volume?

• How quiet a sound is

• How high a sound is

• How loud or soft a sound is

• How fast a sound moves

What does timbre mean?

• How loud something is

• The color of sound

• The special quality that makes a sound different

• The way we see sounds

What is an echo?

• A fast sound

• A sound that repeats after bouncing off something

• A broken sound

• A whisper

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