GCSE Physics – Ultrasound and infrasound
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-I can describe what happens to an ultrasound wave when it hits a boundary and how this property can be used for imaging
-I can describe infrasound and ultrasound and their uses
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Question 1 of 35
1. Question
How are ultrasound waves made?
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2. Question
What are ultrasound waves?
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3. Question
What is the rough frequency of most ultrasound waves?
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4. Question
What can ultrasound be used for?
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5. Question
What else is ultrasound used for?
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6. Question
What do the rest of the ultrasound waves do?
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7. Question
How can ultrasound be used in medical imaging?
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8. Question
What can ultrasound waves produce in medical imaging?
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9. Question
Why is ultrasound used so much in the body for medical imaging?
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10. Question
How dangerous is medical ultrasound imaging?
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Question 11 of 35
11. Question
How can ultrasound be used to find flaws in objects?
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12. Question
What do scientists measure when sending ultrasound pulses?
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13. Question
What is a boundary?
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14. Question
What does the partial reflection property mean?
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Question 15 of 35
15. Question
What happens to ultrasound waves at boundaries?
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16. Question
At a boundary, what happens to the ultrasound waves that are not reflected?
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Question 17 of 35
17. Question
A pulse of ultrasound is partially reflected by an object. What has happened?
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Question 18 of 35
18. Question
What can the time taken for ultrasound waves to reflect be used for?
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Question 19 of 35
19. Question
If there is reflection of ultrasound, what has happened to a pipe?
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20. Question
What is transmission?
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Question 21 of 35
21. Question
Give an example of a medium.
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22. Question
What is echo sounding?
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23. Question
What can echo sounding also be used to find?
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24. Question
What do echo sounding, medical imaging and industrial imaging all rely on?
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25. Question
If a ship receives echoes a long time after the ultrasound is sent, how deep is the water?
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26. Question
If a ship receives echoes almost instantly after the ultrasound is sent, how deep is the water?
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27. Question
A pulse of ultrasound takes 9 seconds to travel from a submarine to the sea bed and back again. How far away is the seabed? (Speed of sound in water 1520 m/s)
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28. Question
A pulse of ultrasound takes 4.5 seconds to travel from a submarine to the sea bed and back again. How far away is the seabed? (Speed of sound in water 1520 m/s)
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A pulse of ultrasound takes 0.5 seconds to travel from a submarine to the sea bed and back again. How far away is the seabed? (Speed of sound in water 1520 m/s)
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Question 30 of 35
30. Question
What is infrasound used to investigate?
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31. Question
What is another name for infrasound waves?
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What do seismic waves cause?
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33. Question
What is the name of the outer layer of the Earth?
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34. Question
What is the name of the layer just beneath the crust in the Earth?
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Question 35 of 35
35. Question
What is the name of the centre of the Earth?
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