This is a metal tool that makes sound when you hit it on a wood block.
What is a tuning fork?
100
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
100
What detects or hears sound.
What is receiver?
200
The bigger the instrument, the _________ the pitch.
The smaller the instrument, the _________ the pitch.
The bigger the instrument, the LOWER the pitch.
The smaller the instrument, the HIGHER the pitch.
200
Sound travels ______ through a solid than through air.
Sound travels FASTER through a solid than through air.
200
This is a cup attached to a string and metal wire. You hold it to your ear and hit it against things.
What is a long gong?
200
How loud or quiet a sound is.
What is volume?
200
Speed of vibration.
What is frequency?
300
As the frequency gets faster, pitch gets ________.
As the frequency gets slower, pitch gets ________.
As the frequency gets faster, pitch gets HIGHER.
As the frequency gets slower, pitch gets LOWER.
300
When sound waves are reflected, it is called an ________.
When sound waves are reflected, it is called an ECHO.
300
This is 5 metal tubes on a foam mat. You hit the tubes with a mallet.
You may also use it in music class.
What is a xylophone?
300
Rapid back-and-forth movement.
What is vibration?
300
The eardrum vibrates when it hears a _______.
The eardrum vibrates when it hears a SOUND.
400
The more tension (tighter), the _________ the pitch.
The less tension (looser), the ___________ the pitch.
The more tension (tighter), the HIGHER the pitch.
The less tension (looser), the LOWER the pitch.
400
Sound can be ________ to see which direction it came from.
Sound can be TIMED to see which direction it came from.
400
This is glasses or jars filled with different amounts of water.
What is a waterphone?
400
Where the sound comes from or the vibration starts.
What is source?
400
How can you tell that a tuning fork vibrates?
Possible answers:
-It makes a sound after you hit it.
-I can feel it when I put it against my skin.
-When I put it in water, it creates a splash or waves.
-When I touch it to a ping-pong ball, the ball bounces.
500
List the four instruments we used to learn how length affects pitch.
xylophone
kalimba
waterphone
string beam
500
Radio sound is heard though the use of a __________.
Radio sound is heard though the use of a TRANSMITTER.
500
This is a cup attached to a string with a paperclip at the end. You wrap the string around a table leg or chair leg, and pluck it.