Vocabulary
Mediums
Properties of Sound
Parts of a Wave
100

The highness or lowness of a sound

pitch

100

Something that sound travels through...

What is a medium or state of matter? 

100

What type of sound vibrates fast?

High pitch

100

What is the high point of a sound wave?

Crest

200

The loudness or softness of a sound

volume

200

Sound travels the fastest through....

Solids

200

What type of sound has a short amplitude?

quiet sound

200

What is the lowest part of a sound wave?

The trough

300

Rapid back and forth movements

Vibration

300

Would sound travel faster through water or air?

water
300

What do you hear if a sound wave is tall and has few waves?

Loud sound and low pitch

300

What is the point of no sound?

Zero Point

400

The part of the wave where the particles are spread apart.

Rarefaction

400
Why is there no sound in space?
There is no air, so there is no medium to travel through.
400
Match the following words to either PITCH or VOLUME: AMPLITUDE, FREQUENCY
Pitch-frequency; Volume-amplitude
400

What do you call the height of the wave?

Amplitude

500

What is a compression?

The part of the wave where the particles are pushed together

500
Put these in order from slowest to fastest media that sound will travel through: steel pan, water, ice, air
air, water, ice, steel pan
500
When I change my voice from low pitch to high pitch, what am I doing to the sound wave?
Making the wave vibrate faster.
500

What do you call the part of the wave that is measured from zero point to zero point?

wave length

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