Answer:
1. Answer: (c) larynx
Explanation: The larynx, or voice box, is located in the neck and performs several important functions in the body.
2. Answer: (b) energy
Explanation: Sound energy is defined as the movement of vibrations through matter. Sound energy is produced when an object vibrates, which results in noise.
3. Answer: (a) 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz
Explanation: While 20 to 20,000Hz forms the absolute borders of the human hearing range, our hearing is most sensitive in the 2000 - 5000 Hz frequency range.
4. Answer: (a) frequency
Explanation: The number of vibrations per second or frequency determines the pitch of a sound. Frequency is directly proportional to pitch. Higher the frequency, the higher the pitch.
5. Answer: (c) less than 20 Hz
Explanation: The range of frequency of subsonic vibration is less than 20 Hz. They cannot be perceived by the human ear. They are also referred to as infrasonic vibrations.
6. Answer: (a) hearing organ
Explanation: The cochlea, the hearing organ, is located inside the inner ear. The snail-like cochlea is made up of three fluid-filled chambers that spiral around a bony core, which contains a central channel called the cochlear duct. Inside the cochlear duct is the main hearing organ, the spiral-shaped organ of the Corti.
7. Answer: (c) 60 vibrations per minute
Explanation: Frequency is the rate at which the current changes its direction per second. One hertz is equal to one cycle per second and therefore 1 hertz is equal to 60 vibrations per minute.
8. Answer: (d) vacuum
Explanation: Sound can not travel through a vacuum. All the other options are given in the question, air, water, and iron sound can travel through them. Sound needs a medium to travel and all the other option like air, water, and iron provide a medium to the sound to travel through them.
9. Answer: (b) sonic sound
Explanation: The audio frequency is called audible frequency. Frequency is expressed in SI unit hertz (Hz). Sound below this audible range is called sub-sonic and the sound above this range is called ultrasonic.
10. Answer: (c) 0.2 sec
Explanation: Time period of pendulum = 0.2 seconds. Hence, the time period of the pendulum as per the given information is 0.2 seconds.
11. Answer: (c) amplitude
Explanation: Thus, the loudness of a sound depends on the amplitude which determines its loudness and volume. ∴ The loudness of the sound depends on its Amplitude.
12. Answer: (a) frequency
Explanation: The number of vibrations exhibited by a vibrating particle in one second is called its frequency.
13. Answer: (d) Vibrating objects only
Explanation: Sound is produced by Vibrating objects only.
14. Answer: (c) Oscillatory motion
Explanation: A type of motion in which a particle vibrates about a fixed point is called vibratory motion. A type of motion in which a particle moves to and fro about a fixed point is called oscillatory motion.
15. Answer: (b) Hertz
Explanation: Frequency is expressed in Hertz.
16. Answer: (c) 80 dB
Explanation: When the loudness of a sound exceeds 80 dB, it becomes painful and intolerable.
17. Answer: (c) loud
Explanation: The large amplitude of sound vibrations will produce a loud sound. The intensity of sound is identified by loudness. The loudness of sound is proportional to the square of the amplitude of the vibration producing the sound. If the amplitude of vibration is large, the sound produced is loud.
18. Answer: (c) Male vocal cord is longer
Explanation: The voice of a man is heavy compared to a woman because the hormone testosterone elongates the vocal cord.
19. Answer: (a) its amplitude
Explanation: Loudness is directly proportional to the amplitude of sound waves. If the amplitude is high then the sound will be louder and the sound will be feeble if the amplitude is low.
20. Answer: (a) 0.02 s
Explanation: If an object is vibrating at 50 hertz
50 = 1/T
T = 1/50
T = 0.02s
Its time period will be 0.02 sec
21. Answer: (d) solids, liquids, and gases
Explanation: This movement is called vibration. Sound travels more quickly through solids than through liquids and gases because the molecules of a solid are closer together. Hence, sounds can travel in solids, liquids, and gases.
22. Answer: (c) vibrating air column
Explanation: A shehnai produces sound from a vibrating air column. A drum produces sound from a vibrating stretched membrane. The frequency of oscillations is the number of oscillations per second.
23. Answer: (c) Faint
Explanation: Amplitude is the magnitude of the sound produced. Therefore, if the magnitude of amplitude is small then the sound produced is faint, or if the amplitude is high then the sound produced is loud.
24. Answer: (c) Diabetes
Explanation: Diabetes is not caused by noise pollution, as diabetes is caused due to lack of insulin in the human body.
25. Answer: (b) shrill
Explanation: A high-pitched sound is called a shrill sound while a low-pitched sound is called a deep sound. Therefore, an object vibrating with high frequency produces a high-frequency sound wave, that is, it produces a shrill or high pitched sound.
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