Vocabulary
Media
Properties of Sound
Sound can...
Miscellaneous
100
The highness or lowness of a sound
pitch
100

Matter that sound travels through.

Medium

100
What type of sound vibrates fast?
High pitch
100

When sound bounces off a solid surface

Echo

100

What causes sound?

Something vibrating/ Vibration

200

The loudness or softness of a sound

Amplitude/Volume

200
Sound travels the fastest through....
Solids
200
What type of sound has a low amplitude?
quiet sound
200

When a sound disappears into an object

absorbed/Absorption

200

Sound travels in?

Waves

300
Rapid back and forth movements
Vibration
300

Would sound travel faster through hot water or cold water?

hot water

300

Match the following words to either PITCH or VOLUME: AMPLITUDE, FREQUENCY

Pitch-frequency; Volume-amplitude

300
Give an example of sound absorption.
Screaming into a pillow (answers may vary)
300

Would sound travel faster through a thin metal wire or thin rope wire?

Thin metal wire

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
What do you hear if a sound wave has high amplitude and low frequency?
Loud and low pitch
400

Why does an empty room sound "echo-y," but a room with furniture does not?

The sound reflects less because the furniture absorbs the sound.

400

The unit of measurement that we use to show how loud sound is.

Decibel

500

The part of the wave where the particles are pushed together

Compression

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

The unit we use to measure how loud a sound is

Decibel

500

How can you change the pitch of a rubber band?

Tighten/stretch the rubber band.

Shorten the space of vibration.

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