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1. What is sound?
2. How mosquitoes make buzzing sound?
3. Will sound travel through water?
4. If you place some small blades on a drum, what will you observe
when you beat this drum with a drum stick? Explain.
5. What is a wave?
Worksheet1
Sound source Part producing Parts vibrating along
vibration with it
Flute Air column Flute,air

BASIC
1. The to and fro movement of an object is called
2. ________ produce sound in humans.
3. Name the part which vibrates to produce sound in flute.
4. Name the part which vibrates to produce sound in tabla.
5. Describe an activity with a (a) meter scale (b) rubber band to show
that only a vibrating body produces sound.
6. What is medium? What constitutes the medium?
7. With the help of tuning fork demonstrate that sound is produced by
a vibrating body
Activity 1
Sounds Develop in Many Ways
Objective
Students produce sounds in different ways.
Materials
Peg board; wide rubber band; two 3 x 5 index cards; small bottle with a
mouth; Tuning fork; one-hole rubber stopper; pencil; paper soda straw;
small wad of paper; thread; masking tape; one wire coat hanger per
student; two pieces of string 50 cm. long
Procedures
1. Stretch a wide rubber band between two support nails on the edge of a
peg board. Stretch the rubber band as far as possible without breaking it.
Pull only the top strand of the rubber band with your finger and then
release it.
Describe and record what you observe.

2. Hold the edges of two slightly curved index cards between your
fingers. Place the two index cards between your lips. Blow hard enough
to produce a sound.

3. Describe what happens to the prongs of the tuning fork after you
strike it.Explain what is making the sound.

4. Attach the ball of paper to the thread with a piece of masking tape.
Strike the tuning fork with the rubber hammer and let the fork touch the
suspended ball. Predict and then describe what happens.
5. Pinch one end of a paper soda straw until it is almost flat. Close your
lips gently around the end of the straw and blow air through it. What do
you think is producing the sound in this case?

6. Tie the strings to the wide ends of the coat hanger.

7. Hold the ends of the strings stretched tight and hit the hanger against a
solid object. Listen to the sound it makes
.
8. Wrap the ends of the string twice around each of your index fingers.
Put your fingers in your ears and get a partner to tap the hanger on the
solid object again.
AGT
1. In which medium sound travels faster?
2. Why astronauts use radio systems for communication?
3. What is vibrating in the following musical instruments producing
by a musical sound?
(a) Violin (b) drum (c) saxophone (d) flute (e) guitar (f) dholak (g)
tabla (h) sitar

Activity 2
Are vibrations essential for producing sound?
What is required?
Tuning fork, plastic ball (1-2 cm diameter), thread, stand, large needle
(about 8-10 cm) and rubber pad
How will you proceed?
1. Make a pair of diametrically opposite holes in the plastic ball.

2. Pass a thread through these holes using the needle and make a knot at
one end so that the ball can be hanged vertically. Suspend the ball from
the stand.

3. Strike one of the prongs of the tuning fork with a rubber pad. Do you
hear any sound?
4. Touch the ball gently with a prong of the vibrating tuning fork. What
do you observe?
5. Now touch one of the prongs of the vibrating tuning fork with your
finger so that it stops vibrating. Do you hear any
Sound now?

6. Touch the ball gently with the prong of this tuning fork again.

7. What do you observe now? Why does the ball move away in the first
case and why not in the second case?

8. What do you infer from these observations? What have you learnt?