Vocabulary
A form of energy that is produced through vibrations and can be heard.
What is Sound?
Pitch
The Highness or Lowness of a Sound.
Which of the following objects does sound move the quickest through?
A Wall, A Pool, or The Air
A Wall
Match the following sound vocabulary:
Volume, Pitch, Frequency, Amplitude
Volume-Amplitude
Pitch-Frequency
Sound does NOT travel through this.
What is Empty Space?
The change that carries energy from one place to another.
What is Wave?
Loudness or Softness of a sound.
What is Volume?
What happens if you bring a Tuning Fork closer to your ear?
The sound produced by the Tuning Fork is made by vibrations.
Match the following graphs to their sound descriptions: High Amplitude, Low Peaks, High Peaks, Low Amplitude
High Amplitude-High Peaks
Low Amplitude-Low Peaks
The resting point is the area in which:
No sound occurs.
The number of crests or troughs that pass by over a certain amount of time.
What is Frequency?
Draw a picture of High Frequency Wave
The Crest and Troughs should be closer together.
Which of the following animals has the largest sound range?
Bat (2,000 Hz-110,000 Hz)
Beluga Whale (1,000 Hz-123,000 Hz)
Human (64 Hz- 23,000 Hz)
Beluga Whale (1,000 Hz-123,000 Hz)
Match the following graphs to their sound descriptions:
High Pitch, Low Pitch, Closer together, Farther apart
High Pitch,- Closer together,
Farther apart- Low Pitch
True or false: there are certain sound frequencies/pitches that humans are unable to hear.
TRUE
The distance between the resting point and the trough of a wave (or the resting point and the crest).
What is Amplitude?
Build and label a Wave
Crest , Trough, Resting Point
In the tuning fork and water experiment, what happened after the tuning fork was hit on a table and placed in the water? What caused this?
The sound vibrations caused by hitting the tuning fork on the table made the water vibrate and at times splash out of the jar.
What would the following sound waves look like? A&F
A Yelling Lady, and Whispering Man
A Yelling Lady- High Amplitude/High Frequency, A whispering Man-Low Amplitude/Low Frequency
True or False: Sound waves CANNOT be reflected, refracted, or absorbed like light waves can.
FALSE
What is Wavelength?
The distance between one crest or trough to the next.
Draw a sound wave that would have a low volume and high pitch
Low Crest, Closer together
An explosion happens in the distance. One person is only looking for the explosion, one person is only listening for the explosion, and one person is feeling for the explosion through the ground. List the order that the explosion will reach the people: through seeing, listening, or feeling?
First: The person looking for the explosion
Second: The person feeling for the explosion through the ground
Third: The person listening for the explosion
Connect the matter to the corresponding speed that sound travels through it:
Fastest, Liquid, Gas, Medium, Solid, Fastest
Gas, Liquid, Solid, Fastest, Slowest, Medium
The saying Coach Bryant uses to help remember which 2 sound vocab words go together. What are the sayings and what are the vocabulary words that go along with them?
What is Planes Fly over Active Volcanoes?