Sound Basics
What do we call the movement of vibrations through a medium (like air) that we can hear?
What is sound?
What part of the ear captures the sound first?
What is pinna?
True or False
Dolphins use their ears to detect their surroundings.
False
What is the term used to describe the loudness or softness of a sound?
What is volume?
Which of these objects would make a sound: a vibrating phone, a tree, or a rock?
What is a vibrating phone?
What is sound measured in?
What are decibels?
What are the 3 bones of the ear?
hammer, anvil, stirrup
True or False:
Sound can travel through water, air, and solids
What is true?
True or False
Pitch is how high or loud a sound is
True
When you hit two cymbals together, will it vibrate?
True or False
The name of the unit of that measures sound is centimeters.
False
What is the nerve of the ear?
What is auditory nerve?
Which animal can hear sounds that humans cannot, due to their ability to detect higher frequencies?
What is a dog?
What is the term for the path that sound takes through air, water, or solid objects?
What is the sound wave?
What is the term for when sound bounces off an object and comes back?
What is an echo?
What part of the ear helps us hear sounds by picking up vibrations?
What is an eardrum?
Finish the sentence
Sounds travels through the _______to the the eardrum.
What is ear canal?
Which animal uses echolocation to detect its surroundings?
What is a bat? What is a dolphin?
True or False
The instrument used to measure sound is a thermometer.
What is False?
If you stand farther away from a sound, how does it change?
What is it becomes quieter?
Sound travels fastest through which medium: air, water, or metal?
What is metal?
What is the part of the ear that looks like a snail's shell?
What is a cochlea?
Which natural sound is produced when a thunderstorm occurs?
What is thunder?
finish the sentence
_____ sounds require more energy than softer sounds.
Give some examples of things that create vibrations in the classroom.
What is talking? What is hitting the table? etc.