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C.N.: ..... Name:.................................. Class: 5……..................... Date: .......................

Sounds: Pitch and Volume

Worksheet No. 12
Term 4

1 Sounds over 85 dB can hurt your ears if you listen to them for a long time.
Sounds over 100 dB can cause damage to your sense of hearing.

Use the data to answer the following questions.

Source of sound Decibels (dB)

leaves rustling 10
refrigerator 50
hairdryer 90
car engine 70
watch ticking 20
pneumatic drill 100
space rocket launching 180
people whispering 30
plane taking off 120

(a) Which sound is the softest from the data? ……………l…e…a…v…es……ru…st…il… [1]

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[1]

(c)
(b) The loudest
Which soundhuman scream among
is the loudest measured
the129 dB. Which
sounds? …s…psound
…a…c…iselouder
…or …c…than
k…e… the
t… loudest

al …u…n…c…h…ni …g…
scream? …s…p…a…c…e…ro…c…k…e…t…al …u…n…c…h…ni … [1]

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(d) What ……………………might
…. a worker experience when using a pneumatic drill? Explain how
construction workers can protect themselves against harmful noise levels.

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…le…v…e…ls…c…a…n…
…d…a…m…a…g…e…
…

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… … … …with
workers … … prolonged
… … … … …exposure.
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m u f s f /e a r p l u g s.
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 2 Farhan and Ghany took a walk around the school. They recorded various sounds using a
decibel meter. Here are the results of their experiment.

Time Decibels
recorded Source of sound (dB)
12:00 car horn 90 dB
12:05 noise in the canteen 100 dB
12:10 vacuum cleaner 72 dB
12:15 classroom talk 55 dB
12:20 library 40 dB
12:25 bird song 49 dB
12:30 corridors in school 35 dB
12:35 school grounds 68 dB

Help Farhan and Ghany to complete their bar chart. Label each bar with the sound
source. The first data has been done for you.
y

100
90
l ……(d…

80
70
i …e…s

Noise in the canteen

60
…………………D……e…c…b

car horn

50
Vacuum cleaner

40
Classroom talk

30
B…)……………..

library
library

Corridors

school

20
groun
Scho
in

ds
ol

10
0 x
12:00 12:05 12:10 12:15 12:20 12:25 12:30 12:35

…………it…m…e……so…u…n…d……re…c…o… [14]

(a) Label the x and y axis with

r…d… decibels
e…d………(dB)
. and the time sound recorded. [2]

(b) Explain why the sound reading at 12:05 was the loudest.

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…th…e…
…c…a…n…te…e…n…w…
…a…s …th…e…
…lo…
u…d…e…st…a…t…1…2…:0…5…s…i…nc…e……it…is…… [2]

…time
… for
… …the
… students’
… … … … lunch. They
… … …… … are
… … talking
… … ……freely
… … with
… … ……
…fr ie
… … n …d …s …………………………………………
o r s o m e m ig h t b e p la y in g
a ro u n d .
(c) Which sounds can hurt someone’s ears if exposed to it for a long time?

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i …t…h…e…c…a…n…t…e… [1]

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 (d) If Farhan and Ghany will conduct the experiment during a weekend, do you think the
recording would be the same? Explain your answer.

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g……a…w…e…e…k…e…n…d….…S…tu…d…e…n…ts…………and school related

(e) activities
Identify the will not in
variables bethis
present.
investigation.
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…so…u…n…d…
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dependent variable a Ds……ere
…… ……cc ob……
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……l/e……vd…o…lu… [2]

m……e …o…f …so…u…n…d………

3 Pathya made a musical instrument. She filled the bottles with different amounts of water.

Which bottle will produce the sound with the lowest and the highest pitch? Explain why.

lowest pitch …b…o…t…tl…e…D…………

highest pitch …b…o…t…etl ……A.………

…T…he…
…m…o…r…e…w…a…t…e…r,…t…he…
…lo…w…e…r…t…h…e…p…it…c…h…. … [3]
the pitch.
Th…e……le…s…s …w…a…te…r…, …th…e……hi…g…h…e…r …

Parent’s signature ………………………….

Date ……………………….….

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