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The Basic/Sound/Describing Sound Waves

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How are the size of a tree and its age related?   Directly, when a tree ages its size increases  
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How are the height of a person and the color of his automobile related?   Unrelated, no relations  
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How is the age of a loaf of bread related to its freshness?   Inversely, as the bread ages its freshness decreases  
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What is the appropriate unit for area?   Square  
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What is the appropriate unit for volume?   Cubic  
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What are measures of length?   Mile, Inch, mm, km  
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List the metric terms in increasing order...?   micro, milli, deci, deca, hecto, mega  
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List the metric terms in decreasing order...?   giga, kilo, hecto, centi, micro, nano  
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How many mL are in 8 Liters?   8,000  
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How many cm are in 3 meters?   300  
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How many km are in 3,000 meters?   3  
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What is the reciprocal of 100   1/100  
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What is the reciprocal of 1/8?   1/8  
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How many hertz is 3 MHz?   3,000,000  
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How many mL are contained in a jar filled with 5 liters of fluid?   5,000  
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How many liters are contained in 80 mL of fluid   0.080  
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How much smaller is a hundred than a thousand?   A hundred is one-tenth of a thousand  
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What is in-phase?   When peaks occur at the same time and same location  
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What is out-of-phase?   When peaks occur at different time  
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What is constructive interference?   A pair of in-phase waves that results in a single wave with a greater amplitude  
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What is destructive interference?   A pair of out-of phase waves that results in a single wave of a lesser amplitude  
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Interference of waves with different frequencies are...?   both constructive and destructive  
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What do waves transfer from one location to another?   energy  
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What best describes sound waves?   sound waves are a series of compressions and rarefractions  
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What are variations that identify specific waves as acoustic waves?   pressure, density, and acoustic variables  
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Sound waves are..?   acoustic, pressure waves, longitudinal, and move energy  
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Acoustic parameters are   period, frequency and propagation speed  
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Two waves are traveling in a medium and arrive at a location at the same time. What event takes place?   Interference  
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Which type of waves will exhibit both constructive and destructive interference?   waves of different frequency  
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What units are used to report pressure?   Pascals, Pa  
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Acoustic variable allow us to determine which waves are sound waves and which are not.   True  
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Acoustic parameters are used to describe the features of sound waves.   True  
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