The nature of sound
How much matter or mass there is in a given amount of space or volume.
What is density?
This word means a description of how high or low a sound seems to a person
What is pitch?
The three main sections of the ear.
What are the outer ear, the inner ear, and the middle ear?
The use of reflected soundwaves to determine distances and how to locate objects.
What is echolocation?
This is the ability to do work.
What is the definition of energy?
A disturbance that travels through a longitudinal wave.
What is sound?
This depends on the energy and intensity of the sound wave.
What is loudness?
A small tightly stretched membrane.
What is the eardrum?
This is the change in the frequency of a wave.
What is the Doppler effect?
These carry energy.
What are waves?
Stiffness, density, and temepature are...
What is what the speed of sound depends on?
This is the amount of energy in a sound wave per second.
What is intensity?
A narrow region that ends at the eardrum.
What is the ear canal?
This is when your ear gathers sound waves and information.
How does the ear work?
These form when a source of energy causes a medium to vibrate.
What are mechanical waves?
When sound waves pass through an opening this happens.
What is diffraction occurs?
This is why is it louder when you hit a drum harder.
What is energy?
This contains more than 10,000 hair cells.
What is the cochlea?
A system that uses reflected soundwaves to locate objects underwater
What is sonar?
When a vibration moves through a medium this happens
What is a wave result?
What sound waves travel through.
What is a medium?
These can hear between 100 and 2500 hertz
What is a bullfrog?
The three bones in your ear that vibrate.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
This is when sound waves carry energy through medium.
How do sound waves travel?
This is when two waves interfere as they pass through each other.
What is a standing wave?