Sound Vocabulary
Sound
Volume
Pitch
Misc.
100
This can be heard when objects vibrate.
What is sound?
100
What happens when an object begins to vibrate?
What is it makes a sound?
100
What is how loud or soft a sound is?
What volume?
100

How high or low a sound is?

What is pitch?

100

Sound is __________ in the form of a wave. 

What is energy

200

The part of a sound wave where particles are closer together when the wave is not passing?

What is compression?

200
Sound can travel through all types of matter, but travels at different_________.
What is speeds?
200

If you blow soft on a recorder what will the sound be like?

What is slow vibrations will create a softer sound?

200

A shorter guitar string vibrates more quickly and makes a _____________ pitch.

What is high pitch?

200

This is when a sound travels through a surface.

What is transmission?

300
A quick back and forth movement of an object.
What is vibration?
300
What causes sound on a guitar?
What is the vibrations of the strings?
300

The amount of energy in a sound wave (Highness or Lowness of the wave)

What is amplitude?

300
A thicker string vibrates more slowly and makes a _______ pitch.
What is low pitch?
300

This is when sound waves disappear into a surface?

What is absorption?

400

The part of a sound wave where particles are more spread out

What is a Rarefaction?

400

Sound needs _______ to travel through and to be heard. 

What is air?

400

The best way for a drummer to increase the volume of his or her drumming would be to_____?

What is hit the drum with more force?

400
When wires are tightened, the results will be a ___________ pitch?
What is a higher pitch?
400

This is when sound waves bounce off a surface?

What is reflection?

500
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
500

What makes the loud sound?

Ex: when a tree falls to the ground.

What is vibrations?

500

The unit of measurement for volume?

What are decibals?

500

Another more scientific name for pitch is ____________ . 

What is frequency

500

Humans can hear from 20 Hertz to ________ Hertz.

What is 20,000?

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