The type of instrument that make music when it is struck.
What is percussion?
100
The part of the ear that interprets sound.
What is the inner ear?
100
The change in pitch of a sound that occurs when the sound source or the listener are in motion.
What is the Doppler effect?
200
A region where there is a lower density of molecules.
What is a rarefaction?
200
A group of sounds that have been deliberately produced to make a regular pattern.
What is music?
200
The type of instrument that makes music when its strings vibrate.
What is a stringed instrument?
200
The part of the ear that amplifies sound.
What is the middle ear?
200
Instruments that make music by making strings vibrate.
What are stringed instruments?
300
The human perception of how much energy a sound wave carries.
What is loudness?
300
The sound amplification that occurs when an object is vibrated at its natural frequency.
What is resonance?
300
How sound is amplified by a stringed instrument.
What is a resonator?
300
The membrane that stretches across the ear canal.
What is the eardrum?
300
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
400
The state of matter that sound travels fastest through.
What is solid?
400
Multiples of the fundamental frequency.
What is overtone?
400
How the pitch of a drum can be changed.
What is tightening the drum head?
400
What the outer ear does.
What is collects sound?
400
The use of sound by animals to tell locations and distances of objects.
What is echolocation?
500
The type of temperatures that sound travels fastest through.
What is warmer/hotter?
500
The frequency at which a musical instrument or other object vibrates.
What is natural frequency?
500
Two examples each of brass instruments and woodwinds.
What is a trumpet (brass), trombone (brass), sousaphone (brass), French horn (brass), flute (woodwind), clarinet (woodwind), oboe (woodwind), saxophone (woodwind)?
500
Three ways can hearing loss can occur.
What is age, loud noise, disease, pressure?
500
The combination of two waves to form a new wave that varies slowly in loudness.