Name:

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Dec. 15 2015

Hearing and Sound!

Unit Test
Section 1: Short Answer.
1. What are the five senses?
a) _____________________________
b) _____________________________
c) _____________________________
d) _____________________________
e) _____________________________
2. How does sound travel?
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3. What is Noise Pollution?
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4. How do we measure volume?
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5. Think about vibration. What happens to vibration when the volume is turned up?
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6. What happens to vibration when the volume is turned down?
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7. What is pitch?
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8. How do we measure pitch?
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9. What has more vibrations per second: a high sound or a low sound?
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10. If we use a device that AMPLIFIES sound, what happens to the volume of the
sound?
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11. If we want to soundproof a sound, should we use a hard solid, or a soft solid?
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12. What is the range of Safety, measured in decibels?
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13. What is the range of Hearing Damage Risk, measured in decibels?
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14. What is the range of Danger, measured in decibels?
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Section 2: Fill in the blanks. (Use the words in the word box to help you.)
- ear canal

- message

- brain

- inner ear

- waves

- senses

- eardrum

- warning

- pinna

1. Hearing is one of the five __________________.

2. Sound ______________ travel in all directions.
3. The _____________________ funnels sounds from outside into the ear.
4. The sound is passed through the __________________________ towards the eardrum.
5. The ______________________ vibrates when sound reaches it.
6. From the eardrum, the sound is passed on to the ______________________, where
nerves carry the ______________________ to the brain.
7. Our _____________________ helps us to recognize sounds.
8. Sound can give us information, or act as a _______________________.

Section 3: True or False.

1. A tightly stretched rubber band has a high pitch.
True or False
2. A short straw whistle has a lower pitch than a long straw whistle.
True or False
3. A fast vibration creates a low pitch. A slow vibration creates a high pitch.
True or False
4. A big bell makes a lower pitch than a small bell.
True or False

5. A thick elastic band makes a high pitch.

True or False
6. A thin elastic band makes a high pitch.
True or False
7. The pitch of a sound gets higher when the amount of hertz increases.
True or False

BONUS QUESTION:
Of all the animals on Earth, which one can make the WIDEST VARIETY of different
sounds?
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