Vocabulary
The highness or lowness of a sound
What is pitch
What is a medium?
What is something that sound travels through
What type of sound vibrates fast?
What is High pitch
Which part of the ear sends nerve impulses to the brain to tell you what you are hearing?
What is Inner ear
When sound bounces off an object
What is Reflect
The loudness or softness of a sound
What is volume
Sound travels the fastest through....
What is Solids
What type of sound has a low amplitude?
What is quiet sound
What is the part of the outer ear that we see called?
What is Pinna
When sound is taken in by an object
What is absorbed
Rapid back and forth movements
What is Vibration
Would sound travel faster through hot chocolate or chocolate milk?
What is hot chocolate
What do you hear if a sound wave has high amplitude and low frequency?
What is Loud and low pitch
Where is the eardrum located?
What is Middle ear
When sound bends around a corner or edge
What is Diffract
The part of the wave where the particles are spread apart.
What is Rarefaction
Why is there no sound in space?
What is there is no air, so there is no medium to travel through.
Match the following words to either PITCH or VOLUME: AMPLITUDE, FREQUENCY
What is Pitch-frequency; Volume-amplitude
What happens in the middle ear?
What is the tiny bones and ear drum vibrate
Why does an empty room sound "echo-y," but a room with furniture does not?
What is the sound reflects less because the furniture absorbs the sound.
What is a compression?
What is the part of the wave where the particles are pushed together
Put these in order from slowest to fastest media that sound will travel through: steel pan, water, ice, air
What is air, water, ice, steel pan
When I change my voice from low pitch to high pitch, what am I doing to the sound wave?
What is making the wave vibrate faster.
Name the three smallest bones in the middle ear.
What is Anvil, stirrup, hammer
Give an example of sound absorption.
What is Screaming into a pillow (answers may vary)