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SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT #4

Grade Level/Learning Area Grade 8- Science

Quarter/Week Quarter 1/ Week 4
MELC Investigates the effects of temperature to the speed of
sound

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on your answer sheets.

1. Study and analyze the infographics above, how does

temperature affect the sound waves?
A. Temperature is another condition that affect the speed of sound. Heat, like sound, is a form of kinetic
energy.
B. Air molecules have more energy at higher temperature, which means they vibrate faster therefore it
allows soundwaves to travel faster.
C. As sound travels faster in hot air, during daytime, the sound waves will be refracted upwards and during
night the sound waves are refracted downwards.
D. Sound travels fastest through solid because the molecules are most tightly packed together in solid,
helping the soundwaves jump from one molecule to another faster.

2. You know that temperature is another condition that affects the speed of sound. Your teacher presents to
the class the data table showing the relationship between the speed of sound in air and temperature.
TEMPERATURE(⁰C) SPEED OF SOUND(m/s)
-30 313
-20 319
-10 325
0 331
10 337
20 341
20 349
Analyze the table above. Which of the following is TRUE about the effect of temperature on the rate of how
sound travels?
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A. Warmer particles vibrate quickly.

B. Temperature increases the speed of sound.
C. The kind of medium affects the speed of sound waves.
D. As the temperature increases, particles vibrate faster, thus sound waves travel more quickly.

3. In your area, you have a neighbor who is fond of singing videoke every weekend. During the daytime, you
can tolerate the noise they produced but during nighttime the noise seems to become louder which causes
irritation to you and to others. One of your concerned neighbors ask them to lower the volume but they said
that the volume was the same as this morning. Why do you think the noise becomes louder at night when
the volume is the same during daytime?
A. No more noise pollution.
B. Sound travels in mediums like air.
C. In warm air sound travels faster, and in cool air sound travels slower.
D. In the daytime, sound bends upward and travels the surface of the earth in a short period of time.

4. Sound waves are examples of longitudinal waves. They also exhibit characteristic features such as frequency,
amplitude, wavelength, period, and wave speed. The alternate pushing and pulling mechanically exerts force
on unit areas of air particles and thus creating pressure waves. These alternating compressions and
rarefaction make up the longitudinal waves like sound wave. Which statement is true?
A. The source of sound is vibrating object.
B. There are two different aspects to sound: the physical process and physiological process.
C. Sound waves are longitudinal waves, and they propagate parallel to the transmitting medium.
D. Sound can travel faster in mediums with higher elastic properties than in lower elastic properties.

5. The graph shows the speed of sound at a certain temperature. What can we
infer on the relationship of temperature and speed of sound?
A. Light travels faster than sound.
B. The speed of sound varies at different temperature.
C. As the temperature increases, the speed of sound also increases.
D. Temperature is the degree of hotness or coldness and the unit used for temperature is centigrade or
Celsius.