Worksheet

Chapter water and sound wave

1. If a person is jogging on a track and
covers a distance of 120m in 20 seconds,
what is his/her speed?
2. If an aeroplane travels 432km in 6000
seconds, what is its speed in m/s?
3. If a car travels 900m in 30 seconds, how
fast is it going?
4. An echo is heard 10 seconds after a
sound is produced. Calculate how far away
the reflecting surface is.
5. A boy standing in front of a cliff shouts
and hears the sound back after 3 seconds.
The cliff is 500m away from him. What is
the speed of sound? Include your
calculation.
Q6 Match column A with Column B and
write the correct letter in Column C

Q7 State whether the following statements

are true or false.
i. High pitched sounds have a low
frequency sound wave.
ii. The wavelength of a high-pitched sound
wave is shorter than the wavelength of a
low pitched sound wave.
iii. The faster the vibration, the higher the
frequency.
iv. A loud sound carries higher energy than
a low sound.
v. Sounds above 20000 Hz are called infra
sounds.
Q8 Look at the following diagrams of the
waves of sounds A and B and answer the
questions below. Both the X and Y axes of
both graphs have the same scale

i. Describe the differences you can see

between sound A and sound B.

ii. What are the units of the Y-axis? What is

being measured?
iii. Draw a two sided arrow on each graph
showing the wavelength of the sound.
iv. Which sound has the shorter
wavelength?
v. Which sound is louder? How do you
know this?
vi. Which sound is higher pitched? How do
you know this?
vii. Pitch is also described by a different
word. What is this word and what are the
units?