Match the following key words to the correct definition.
Sound vibrations
Matching
Year 7
3
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How many of the following can make a sound: a vibrating string, a vibrating drum skin or vibrating air in a tube.
Sound vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Match the following volumes of sound to a description of how it could be made.
Sound vibrations
Matching
Year 7
3
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How would the sound of a wooden spoon hitting a pan change if the pan were hit harder?
Sound vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Which of the following can cause the pitch of a sound to change?
Sound vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
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Which of the following happen in our ears to allows us to hear a sound?
Sound vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
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How would you describe the sound of thunder?
Sound vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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How would you describe the sound of a mouse's squeak?
Sound vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Starting with what happens first, sort the following statements in the correct order to describe how we speak.
Sound vibrations
Ordering
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1
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Louder sounds are caused larger vibrations. What word describes the size of a vibration?
Sound vibrations
Short answer
Year 7
1
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Making a guitar string tighter or shorter can make it vibrate more quickly. If a guitar string vibrates more times each second, it has a higher __________.
Sound vibrations
Short answer
Year 7
1
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Which of the following statements about sound are related to the frequency?
Sound vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
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Which of the following actions are vibrations?
Travelling vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
3
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Three things that can make sounds are: a human speaking, a flute and a violin. How many of these cause sounds by making something vibrate?
Travelling vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Match each of the following key terms with its definition.
Travelling vibrations
Matching
Year 7
4
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Which of the following changes will lower the pitch of the sound made by a drum?
Travelling vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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If the __________ of the vibration of an object increases, the pitch of the sound it makes also increases.
Travelling vibrations
Short answer
Year 7
1
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If the __________ of a vibration of an object increases, this increases the volume of the sound it makes.
Travelling vibrations
Short answer
Year 7
1
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Which of the following is a description of a wave?
Travelling vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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A vibrating ruler makes a sound. Each time the ruler moves forwards, it pushes air particles forwards. What do these particles do to make the sound travel forwards across the room?
Travelling vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Sort the following statements into the correct order to describe what happens to particles that are near the left side of the string when a guitar string is plucked and starts vibrating.
Travelling vibrations
Ordering
Year 7
1
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Which of the following explains how a person can hear a sound?
Travelling vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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A scientific model is __________ about a part or behaviour of the real world.
Travelling vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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In a simple model of a sound wave in air, air particles simply move back and forth. The wave travels because particles hit other particles.
Which of the following details does this model ignore?
Travelling vibrations
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
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A vibrating object creates a sound. Which of the following correctly describes the amplitude of the vibration?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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A vibrating object creates a sound. Which of the following correctly describes the change in the sound heard if the amplitude of the vibration decreases?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Which of the following correctly describes the movement of air particles when a sound wave travels through the air?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Solids, liquids and gases are made of particles.
Which of the following describe the arrangement or the movement of particles in a solid?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
3
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Which of the following describe the arrangement or the movement of particles in a liquid?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Which of the following describe the arrangement or the movement of particles in a gas?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
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Which of the following words means ‘a completely empty area of space’?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Which of the following words means ‘a substance that a wave travels through’?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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How many of the following can sound travel through: vacuum, gas, liquid, solid?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Sound travels at different speeds through different states of matter.
Starting with the slowest, sort the following states of matter in order of increasing sound speed.
Travelling sound
Ordering
Year 7
1
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Which of the following explains why sound travels at different speeds through solids, liquids and gases?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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A vibrating object creates a sound. Which of the following correctly describes the change in the sound heard the further a sound wave travels?
Travelling sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
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Which of the following words describes a repeated back and forth movement?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Which of the following words is used to describe what all solids, liquids and gases are made of?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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A drum on one side of a room is hit. It makes a sound that travels to the other side of the room. How does the sound travel across the room?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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What is the name of the process when a wave ‘bounces’ off a surface?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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What name is given to the process when a wave loses its energy after travelling into a material, so that it neither bounces off nor travels all the way through?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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When a sound wave travels through air, it makes the air heat up a little.
Which of the following statements explains why this happens?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Which of the following statements are correct?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
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A person hits a drum in a room. After they stop hitting the drum, they cannot hear the sound any more.
Which of the following statements explains why this happens?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
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A person stands 5 metres away from a wall outside and claps. They hear an echo.
When the person hears the echo, how far has the sound wave travelled?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Which of the following characteristics of a surface allow it to produce clear echoes?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
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Which of the following is the correct definition of ‘noise’?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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In a music recording room, echoes are usually not wanted.
Which of the following methods are most effective at reducing echoes in the room?
Reflecting and absorbing sound
Multiple choice
Year 7
2
No diagram
It is completely dark inside a room. Which of the following statements explains why?
Shadows
Multiple choice
Year 7
1
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Which of the following statements explains how we can see an object?
