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Who was the scientist who invented the telephone and studied sound and hearing?
a) Alexandra Bells
b) Alexander Graham Bell
c) Franklin Graham
d) Graham Crackers

What unit is most often used to measure the intensity of a sound?
a) meter
b) decibel
c) bel
d) centimeter

An echo in the mountains can be an example of a sound's off of cliffs.
a) Reflection
b) absorption
c) transmission
d) transmittion

The distance from the top of one wave to the top of the next wave is called the
a) Wavelength
b) amplitude
c) pitch
d) vibration

The process of taking in and stopping a sound is called
a) Amplitude
b) Reflection
c) Atom
d) Absorption

The measure of how loud or soft a sound is
a) Pitch
b) Volume
c) Intensity
d) frequency

The number of waves that pass a certain point in one second is called the
a) Frequency
b) amplitude
c) reflection
d) Vibration

The process of a sounds wave's traveling through matter is called
a) amplitutde
b) transmisson
c) transmitton
d) absorption

How high or low a note sounds is called its
a) frequency
b) pitch
c) intensity
d) wavelength

A measure of the amount of energy in a wave
a) absorption
b) reflection
c) Amplitude
d) transmittion

The distance from the rest position to the top of a wave is called a wave's
a) wavelength
b) amplitude
c) absorption
d) frequency

A word that means bouncing off is
a) vibration
b) relfection
c) refraction
d) echo

Quick back and forth motion is called
a) vibration
b) pitch
c) frequency
d) intensity

Which of these would make a higher pitch sound?
a) Children's voice
b) Adult's voice
c)
d)

A bird's vocal cords are short, so they vibrate
a) slowly
b) quickly
c)
d)

To measure sound waves you would need to use a
a) ruler
b) microphone
c) oscilloscope
d) beaker

This part of your ear catches the sound waves and funnels them inward to your eardrum
a) eardrum
b) outer ear
c) cochlea
d) anvil

This part of your ear vibrates when you hear a sound wave
a) eardrum
b) outer ear
c) cochlea
d)

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