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8th Grade Quarter 1 Waves (8Sf)

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. What do waves carry from place to place?
a. energy, but not matter
b. energy and matter

c.
d.

matter, but not energy

neither energy nor matter

2. A wave can make a leaf bob up and down on the water, but it cannot move the leaf toward the shore. This is
because waves transfer only _____________.
a. matter
c. media
b. energy
d. crests
3. How do waves transfer energy?
a. through ocean waves
b. by the vibration of particles in a medium
c. through compression
d. by a combination of waves
4. Electromagnetic waves can transfer energy without a(n) __________.
a. medium
b. magnetic field
c. electric field
d. change in either a magnetic or an electric field
5. Mechanical waves are created when a source of energy causes a medium to ________.
a. move
c. expand
b. compress
d. vibrate
6. Which one of the following is NOT an example of a mechanical wave?
a. sound wave
c. earthquake wave
b. water wave
d. radio wave
7. Tsunamis have a large amount of energy because of their large ____.
a. wavelength
c. frequency
b. amplitude
d. diffraction
8. Which one of the following determines the color of a light wave?
a. amplitude only
c. wavelength and frequency
b. wavelength and amplitude
d. interference patterns
9. In an ideal wave, which of the following wave properties does not change as it travels along the same medium?
a. amplitude
c. frequency
b. wavelength
d. all of the above
10. A place where molecules are farther apart is a ____.
a. refraction
c. rarefaction
b. reflection
d. compression

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11. When light bounces off a surface it is called ____.

a. reflection
c. diffraction
b. refraction
d. interference
12. In which one of the following cases will refraction occur?
a. light traveling from air to glass
b. light reflecting off of a mirror
c. light bending around the corner of a door
d. green light interfering with blue light
13. To produce sound, an object must be ____.
a. moving toward the listener
b. heated

c.
d.

in a gas
vibrating

14. ____ is the human perception of the energy a wave carries.

a. Loudness
c. Wavelength
b. Pitch
d. Amplitude
15. You can hear sound around an open door because sound waves ____.
a. refract
c. diffract
b. reflect
d. diffuse
16. What is the relationship between eyesight and light?
a. Light shines on all objects, allowing people to see them.
b. Light shines through all objects, allowing people to see them.
c. Light enters the eye before striking an object, allowing people to see the
object.
d. Light reflects off an object and then enters the eye, allowing people to see
the object.
17. How do we see a tree?
a. By light reflecting off the tree and entering our eyes
b. By light travelling from our eyes and reflecting off the tree
c. By light reflecting off our eyes and entering the tree
d. Light can pass through any material
18. If light waves change speed when they pass from one medium into another, the light will be ____.
a. diffracted
c. separated
b. reflected
d. refracted
19. A piece of paper that appears blue in sunslight is illumimated solely by a red light that is passed through a green
filter. What color does the paper appear under this illumination?
a. Blue
c. Red
b. Green
d. Black
20. If an object looks blue, it reflects ____ waves.
a. blue
c.
b. red and yellow
d.

all but blue

all

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21. What an object is made of and the color of light that strikes it determine the
a. apparent color of the object.
b. transparency of the object.
c. opacity of the object.
d. translucence of the object.
22. Electromagnetic waves that you can see are called _____________.
a. Infrared rays
c. X-rays
b. Microwaves
d. Visible light
23. What type of electromagnetic wave transmits thermal energy from a fireplace door?
a. microwaves
c. radiowaves
b. infrared waves
d. ultraviolet waves
24. Suncreen is designed to protect your skin from exposure to too much _______.
a. ultraviolet radiation
c. infrared radiation
b. gamma radiation
d. visible light