WEEKLY ASSESSMENT

BASIC SCIENCE

BASIC 8

Doc. Ref: TRA-EXM-STDA-BSC/2021

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Please take a few minutes to read the instructions before you start. Barakallahu Feekh!

PART A – MULTIPLE CHOICE

Instruction: Choose the correct answer from the options lettered A-D

1. Wave height is ……………….

A. frequency
B. wavelength
C. amplitude
D. wave speed

2. The distance between 2 crests or troughs

A. Wavelength
B. Amplitude
C. Frequency
D. wave speed

3. The number of waves that pass in a given amount of time.

A. wavelength
B. wave speed
C. amplitude
D. frequency

4. A longitudinal wave can travel through

A. solids only
B. liquids only
C. gas, liquids, and solids
D. gas and vacuum only

5. Vocal cords work due to the ______________ created through talking.

A. reflections

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B. vibrations
C. auditory
D. stirrup

6. Sound will travel fastest through which of the following forms of matter?

A. Solid
B. Liquid
C. Gas
D. Jelly

7. Why can you not hear sounds in space?

A. Space is loud
B. Waves can't travel in space
C. There are no particles to vibrate
D. none

8. The speed of sound in air is.....

A. 1500m/s
B. 340m/s
C. 5000m/s
D. 300,000,000m/s

9. What do bats and dolphins use to find things?

A. Eyes
B. Echolocation
C. Ears
D. Sense of smell

10. What is volume?

A. how high or low a sound is
B. the loudness or softness of a sound

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C. the number of vibrations per second
D. vibrations

11. The rapid back-and-forth motion of matter creating sound is called _________.

A. mechanical energy
B. the Doppler Effect
C. a vibration
D. a wave
12. The following animal high pitch sound

A. cow
B. mouse
C. dog
D. cat

13. If a sound has a high amplitude then it also has a ____________!!!

A. fast echo
B. slow pitch
C. high volume
D. low volume

14. Frequency is measured in the unit of

A. Ampere (A)
B. Hertz (Hz)
C. Mole (mol)
D. Meter (m)

15. Which of the following statement is true?

A. The higher the amplitude, the higher the pitch of sound

B. The lower the amplitude, the louder the sound
C. The higher the frequency, the higher the pitch
D. The lower the frequency, the louder the sound

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PART B
Instruction: answer all the questions in this section.

QUESTION 1
A. Your vocal cords and a loudspeaker produce sound. Name three other sources of sounds waves.

B. Explain why sound cannot travel through a vacuum.

C. In what ways is your ear like a microphone?

D. Which part of a microphone is like the eardrum?

E. Why would it be dangerous to put a sharp object into your ear?

QUESTION 2

A.

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B.

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c. Aditya plays a note on a guitar. The note has a frequency of 512 Hz. How many times a second
does the string vibrate?

Question 3

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A. Copy and complete the sentences.
The pitch of a sound depends on the _________________ of the sound.
A high-pitched sound will have waves that have a _________ wavelength.

B. Sort these frequencies into those that are sound and those that are ultrasound.
4500 Hz 100 000 Hz 30 000 Hz 30 Hz 1500 Hz

C. What is the name for the frequencies that make a musical note distinct?

D.

Question 4

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B.

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