1. Sound Quiz
A check up to see if you are using your ears to pick up the sound waves around you.

2. 1. The part of your ear that acts as a “catcher” of sound, catching the sound waves from the air, is your:
eardrum
ear lobe
outer ear
inner ear
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3. 2. Sound is funneled through your ear canal
2. Sound is funneled through your ear canal. Then it bounces off your ______ causing it to vibrate.
auditory nerve
ear bone
eardrum
tonsil
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4. stirrup syrup halter spur
3. Next, the vibration moves along to the tiniest bones in your body. They act like a little relay team as they pass the vibration along. They are the hammer, the anvil, and the __________.
stirrup
syrup
halter
spur
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5. 4. Next the vibration moves to the ______ _________, the gateway to the inner ear.
circular mirror
round prism
oval window
oval mirror
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6. 5. The snail-shaped part of your inner ear that holds fluid, hearing cells, and nerve endings is called the _________.
cochlea
cobra
koala
auditory nerve
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7. 6. The signal is sent up to the brain by traveling along the __________ ______.
spinal cord
ear canal
federal express
auditory nerve
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8. 7. The _______ decodes the signal and tells you what made the sound occur.
ear
eye
brain
nerve
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9. they are all the same pitch
8. A little girl picks up a mallet to hit a xylophone. She wants to create the highest pitch that she can make. Which key should she hit?
the longest key
the shortest key
the one in the middle
they are all the same pitch
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10. the middle one the longest one the shortest one any of the straws
9. All of the guests at Audrey’s birthday party made panpipes out of straws of different lengths. They wanted to play Happy Birthday on the panpipes and they wanted to start on a low pitch. Which straw would the guests blow to get a low pitch?
the middle one
the longest one
the shortest one
any of the straws
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11. the one with the least water the one with the most water
10. Jadea found that she could make music from bottles that she filled with different amount of water. When she tapped on the side of the bottles, she found different pitches according to the amount of water in each bottle. Which bottle did she tap to get a high pitch?
the one with the least water
the one with the most water
the one that was almost full
they were all the same
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12. the pitch results were different because Michael is taller
11. Michael said that he could make music a different way using Jadea’s bottles of water. He blew over the tops of the bottles to get different pitches. His pitch results were not the same as the ones Jadea had predicted. What was the difference?
the pitch results were different because Michael is taller
Michael was using the amount of air instead of water
he did it wrong
someone bumped the table
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13. 12. Timmy is having guitar problems
12. Timmy is having guitar problems. All of the notes he plays are a tiny bit lower in pitch than he would like. What can Timmy do to make the pitch a little bit higher?
hit the string harder
loosen the string
tighten the string
hit the string softer
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14. 13. We have learned that a _____ vibration produces a high pitch.
tiny
slow
fast
big
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15. 14. If sound is too loud, it will harm your ear
14. If sound is too loud, it will harm your ear. The loudness or volume of sound is measured in:
centimeters
decibels
phonographs
kilometers
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16. 15. When you talk, the sound of your voice is made from the vibrations of your:
talking box
imagination
vocal connector
vocal chords
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17. 16. When sound bounces off of an object, an ______ is heard.
elephant
vibration
echo
whisper
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18. 17. A quiet sound is made by a _____ vibration.
fast
tiny
big
slow
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19. 18. A slow vibration produces a ____ pitch.
natural
quiet
high
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20. 19. The Native Americans put their ear to the ground to listen for buffalo because:
sound travels best through a gas
sound travels best through a solid
sound travels best through a liquid
they thought the grass was warm
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21. 20. Whales and bats use sound and its echo to help them find food
20. Whales and bats use sound and its echo to help them find food. This is called:
scavenging
echolocation
echo vibration
echo sign
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