Sound Wave Fun Facts
Properties of Sound waves
Sound Waves and Objects
How We Perceive Sound
CER
100

What is 340.29 m/s (meters per second)

What is the Speed of Sound

100

What is the unit that is used to measure sound level?

What is decibels 

100

The number of peaks or valleys in a given amount of time

What is Frequency

100

Used by humans to receive sound

What are Ears

100

What is a CER paragraph and what is the minimum # of sentences your paragraph should have?

Claim, Evidence, Reasoning; 3

200

100+ dB and an extremely high pitch are needed to break this

What is Wine Glass

200

Sound requires this to travel

What is Medium 


*(Also accept state of Matter)

200

Determined by the frequency of the wave

What is Pitch

200

The 3 main sections of the ear

What are Outer, Middle and Inner Ear

200

What is an easy way to write a claim?

Reword the question into the form of a sentence.

300

Sound can't travel in this

What is Space

300

What are the 3 main types of medium that sound can travel through?

What is solid, liquid, and gas

300

Where a sound is at rest; nothing is being produced

What is a Starting Position

300

Acts as a funnel to concentrate the sound waves toward your middle and inner ear. Contains the eardrum and the ear canal

What is Outer Ear

300

What is a claim?

It is a statement sentence/It is where the question is being answered.

400

The science of sound

*Hint: It's a type of guitar

What is Acoustics

400

A frequency of a wave is 366 waves/6 seconds, what is this frequency simplified?

*Must include unit

What is 61 waves/1 second (w/s, Hertz)

400

The distance from starting position to a peak or valley

What is Amplitude

400

Contains the cochlea

What is Inner Ear

400

What is the purpose of including evidence?

It supports your claim and makes your paragraph factual.

500

Hot air expanding fast enough to break the sound barrier

*Hint: Part of a storm

What is Thunder

500

Created when objects vibrate and travels through the condensing and spreading apart of particles

What are Sound Waves

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What we look for on a wave to determine the type of frequency and type of amplitude

*Let me know which answer is for which word

What is Frequency: Spacing of Waves (how many there are in a period of time) and 

Amplitude: Distance from starting position to peak/valley

500

Contains small bones, including the stapes

What is Middle Ear

500

What is the purpose of reasoning?

It is your explanation ("why") that your evidence supports your claim. 

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