Question 1

What is the primary characteristic that determines the pitch of a sound?

Accepted Answer

Frequency

Answer

Amplitude

Answer

Wavelength

Answer

Pressure

Question 2

Which of the following properties of sound is primarily responsible for how we perceive volume?

Accepted Answer

Amplitude

Answer

Frequency

Answer

Speed

Answer

Wavelength

Question 3

What is the term for a repeated sound that occurs after the original sound has stopped?

Accepted Answer

Echo

Answer

Reverb

Answer

Harmonics

Answer

Overtone

Question 4

Which of the following properties of sound determines how loud a sound is perceived?

Accepted Answer

Amplitude

Answer

Frequency

Answer

Wavelength

Answer

Velocity

Question 5

What is the term for the highest frequency of a sound wave that a human ear can typically hear?

Accepted Answer

Ultrasound

Answer

audible range

Answer

Infrasound

Answer

Tinnitus

Question 6

Which of the following best describes how sound travels through different mediums?

Accepted Answer

Sound travels fastest through solids, slower through liquids, and slowest through gases.

Answer

Sound travels fastest through gases and slowest through solids.

Answer

Sound cannot travel through liquids.

Answer

Sound travels at the same speed in all mediums.

Question 7

What is an echo?

Accepted Answer

The reflection of sound off a surface back to the listener

Answer

The absorption of sound by materials

Answer

The creation of sound in a vacuum

Answer

The distortion of sound in a medium

Question 8

Which property of sound waves is responsible for the perception of pitch?

Accepted Answer

Frequency

Answer

Speed

Answer

Amplitude

Answer

Intensity

Question 9

What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency in sound waves?

Accepted Answer

As frequency increases, wavelength decreases.

Answer

Wavelength is independent of frequency.

Answer

As frequency decreases, wavelength increases.

Answer

Higher wavelengths produce higher frequencies.

Question 10

Which frequency range is typically considered within the human hearing range?

Accepted Answer

20 Hz to 20 kHz

Answer

100 Hz to 10 kHz

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200 Hz to 15 kHz

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50 Hz to 25 kHz

Question 11

What is the process by which the ear perceives sound intensity?

Accepted Answer

Loudness

Answer

Pitch

Answer

Echo

Answer

Timbre

Question 12

What phenomenon explains the ability to hear a sound even when it is far away?

Accepted Answer

Sound propagation

Answer

Sound reflection

Answer

Sound absorption

Answer

Sound diffusion

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