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

What is a medium?

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Something that sound travels through

100
What type of sound vibrates fast?
High pitch
100

What is absorption? Give an example

When sound waves get absorbed by a soft object/material

100
When sound bounces off an object
Reflect
200
The loudness or softness of a sound
volume
200
Sound travels the fastest through....
Solids
200
What type of sound has a low amplitude?
quiet sound
200

What is reflection?

When sound waves bounce off a hard material/surface

200
When sound is taken in by an object
absorbed
300
Rapid back and forth movements
Vibration
300

Would sound travel faster through metal or chocolate milk?

Metal

300

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

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Loud and low pitch

300

Which instrument when played would have the highest pitch? (Flute, Horn, trombone, tuba)

Flute

300

What do loud sound waves look like?

Big vibrations and Big waves

400

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

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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

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Pitch-frequency; Volume-amplitude

400

Why would an empty gym have an echo?

The sound waves would bounce off the hard surface since there are no soft objects to absorb them

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.
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

Sound energy is a form of energy that is produced when...... BE SPECIFIC

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Something vibrates and causes nearby air particles to vibrate

500
Give an example of sound absorption.
Screaming into a pillow (answers may vary)
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