The ear
Sound Vocabulary
Sound
100
The part of the ear that catches sound
What is the outer ear
100
An instrument for measuring sound waves
What is an oscilliscope
100
Materials that sound can travel through
What is gas, water, air, and some solids
200
At the end of the ear canal, sound waves make it vibrate.
What is the ear drum
200
How much energy sound waves have
What is amplitude
200
If something is large, the type of pitch it will have
What is low
300
The hairs in this organ change the vibrations into nerve signals
What is the cochlea
300
The small unit that most sound is measured in
What is a decibel
300
The reason a smaller object has a higher pitch
What is the vocal chords vibrate faster
400
There are three little bones that vibrations travel through. This is the middle one
What is the anvil
400
The measure of how loud or soft a sound is
What is intensity
400
A heavy object will make this kind of sound and has this kind of energy
What is loud and more
500
The first and last of the little bones before the cochlea
What is the hammer and the stirrup
500
How high or low a sound is
What is pitch
500
The reason there is no sound in space
What is there is no air
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