Vocabulary
Sound
Volume
Pitch
The Human Body
100
This can be heard when objects vibrate.
What is sound?
100
What happens when an object begins to vibrate?
What is it makes a sound?
100

The degree of loudness of a sound.

What is volume?

100
How high or low a sound is: ____________.
What is pitch?
100

Bands of smooth muscle tissue found in the voice box.

What are the vocal cords?

200

How wide an object is

What is thickness?

200
Sound can travel through all types of matter, but travels at different_________.
What is speeds?
200

If you blow softly into a recorder what will the sound be like?

What is the slow vibrations will create a softer sound?

200
A shorter guitar string vibrates more quickly and makes a _____________ pitch.
What is high pitch?
200

The thin membrane that separates the outer ear and middle ear and carries sound waves as vibrations to the chain of tiny bones in the middle ear. 

What is the eardrum?

300
A quick back and forth movement of an object.
What is vibration?
300
What causes sound on a guitar?
What is the vibrations of the strings?
300

True or False? The volume gets louder the closer you are to the source.

What is true?

300
A thicker string vibrates more slowly and makes a _______ pitch.
What is low pitch?
300

Organ that allows you to breathe air.

What are the lungs?

400
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
400
What makes the loud sound when a tree falls to the ground?
What is vibrations?
400

Which sound is louder? A bird chirping, or a police siren?

What is police siren?

400
What happens to pitch if the volume is increased?
What is it stays the same.
400

The part of the ear that we can see.

What is the outer ear?

500
Loudness or softness of a sound.
What is volume?
500
When two cans are attached by a string and one person speaks into one end, someone else will hear on the other end. What makes this happen?
What is the vibrations are carried on the string.
500
The best way for a drummer to increase the volume of his or her drumming would be to_____?
What is hit the drum with more force?
500
When wires are tightened, the results will be a ___________ pitch?
What is a higher pitch?
500

The spiral cavity of the inner ear that is filled with fluid.

What is the cochlea

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