What is sound?
Waves
Vocabulary
Ears
Music
100

Sound is a type of what?

What is energy?

100

This is the high point of the wave.

What is the crest?

100

This is the way sound waves move in all directions.

What is longitudinal?

100

This is the name of the outer ear.

What is the pinna or auricle?

100

This part of sound results from how tightly molecules are pressed together.

What is volume?

200

Sound is created when something does what?

What is vibrates?

200

This is the height of the wave.

What is amplitude?

200

This is the unit to measure sound.

What is decibel?

200

This happens when you hear a siren pass by you.

What is the doppler effect?

200

This equipment makes the sound of our voice travel farther when singing.

What is a microphone?

300

We hear sound when vibrations reach this part of the body.

What are ears?

300

This is the low point of the wave.

What is the trough?

300

This is a sound that is too low for us to hear.

What are infrasounds?

300

Name a tiny bone behind your eardrum that is shaped like a hammer.

What is malleus?

300

This happens when you hold down a guitar string and strum.

What is a musical vibration?
400

True or False: You can see sound with your eyes.

What is false?

400

This is the distance between one crest or trough to the next.

What is the wavelength?

400
This is when a jet plane or rocket travels faster than the speed of sound.

What is supersonic?

400

The inner ear changes sounds into what?

What are nerve signals?

400

This is how a musician makes their instrument or voice sound louder.

What are amplifiers?
500

Sound travels as what?

What are sound waves?

500
This is halfway between a crest and a trough.

What is a resting point?

500

This is the fear of sound.

What is acousticophobia?

500

Your ear tunnels sound into this part of your ear.

What is an ear canal?

500

Inside a microphone, this vibrates with sound.

What is a magnet?

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