The Ear
Vocabulary
Good Vibrations
How Sound Travels
Vocabulary Part 2
100
When someone can no longer hear sound
What is deaf?
100
The loudness of a sound.
What is volume?
100
How high or low a sound is refers to this term.
What is pitch?
100
An object or material that vibrates in a way that sound is made.
What is a sound source?
100
A unit used to measure the loudness of sound.
What is decibel?
200
Human sound receiver
What is the ear?
200
The emptiness of space.
What is a vacuum?
200
The speed of the vibrations coming from a sound source.
What is frequency?
200
Measurement for the frequency of sound.
What is hertz?
200
Repeated reflection of sound waves against a smooth surface.
What is echo?
300
The number of main parts of the human ear.
What is three (outer ear, middle ear, inner ear).
300
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
300
Adjusting a sound source such as a musical instrument is called...
What is tuning?
300
Sound vibrations are also called…
What is sound waves?
300
Sounds above the human range of hearing.
What is ultrasonic?
400
The tube in the ear where sound passes through to the ear drum.
What is Ear canal?
400
The unit used to measure the frequency of sound.
What is Hertz?
400
Based on our tube experiment, does a longer or shorter tube make a higher pitch sound?
What is a shorter tube?
400
Which medium does sound travel through faster, air or water?
What is water?
400
The speed at which an object vibrates.
What is frequency?
500
The three bones of the middle ear.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
500
Gathers sound vibrations and directs them to the middle ear.
What is the outer ear?
500
Term for a rapid back and forth movement.
What is vibration?
500
Some animals such as bats use the bouncing back of sound to help them "see".
What is echolocation?
500
The process of locating an object by using sound waves.
What is echolocation?
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