Misc.
Vocabulary
The Ear
Instruments and Sound
100
The human voice is an example of what kind of sound?
What is natural sound
100
What causes sound?
What is vibration
100
The ear lobe is part of the inner, middle, or outer ear?
What is the outer ear
100
What sized instrument would play a low note?
What is a big instrument.
200
What happened in the experiment when you hit the tuning fork on the block and then placed it in the cup of water?
What is the tuning fork vibrates and the vibration splashes the water
200
The loudness of a sound is called?
What is volume.
200
What is the nerve called that sends the sound signals to the brain?
What is the auditory nerve?
200
A violin has short strings what kind of pitch is this instrument going to have?
What is a high pitch
300
Does sound travel best through air, water, or solids?
What is solids
300
Being able to tell different sounds apart is called
What is sound discrimination
300
This part of the ear looks like a shell and is full of fluid.
What is the cochlea
300
Pitch also refers to
What is frequency
400
One object is vibrating very quickly while the second object has a much slower vibration. Which will have a higher pitch?
What is the first object
400
Highness or lowness of a sound is called?
What is pitch
400
A microphone would be considered a sound source, receiver, or both?
What is both
400
If a drawing of a sound wave has waves that are close together this sound has a
What is high pitch/frequency
500
If you were to pluck a string and at the same time slowly pull it tighter and tighter what would happen to the pitch of the string?
What is the pitch would get higher
500
Listening to a sound through a funnel (tube) makes it easier to hear the sound. This process of increasing the loudness of a sound is called
What is amplification
500
What part of the ear collects sound waves and acts as a funnel to move the waves into the ear canal?
What is the auricle/pinna
500
A cello is a large instrument which means it will have a low pitch, if we were to draw the sound waves would they be close together or far apart?
What is Far Apart. *The longer the strings the slower the vibrations which means sound has farther to travel.
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