All About Sound
Sound Waves
Vocabulary
Pitch & Volume
Random
100

To move back and forth very quickly

Vibrate

100

When someone talks, the _______ travel through the air to your ear

Sound waves
100
A form of energy that travels in waves and is produced and transmitted by vibrating matter is ___________.
sound
100

How high or low a sound is

Pitch

100
True or False. Sound travels faster than light.
False. Light travels much faster than sound.
200

Sound moves in _____.

waves

200

Can sound waves travel through all three states of matter?

Yes

200
_____________ determines how loud or soft a sound is.
Volume
200

How loud or soft a sound is

Volume

200
Give two reasons sound is useful.
Communication, locating food, sonar, and entertainment
300
_____________ is created by vibrations.
Sound
300
Draw a wave with high pitch and low amplitude.
There should be a lot of waves close together and short.
300

What is the thin piece of skin in your inner ear that vibrates when sound reaches it?

Eardrum

300

As the pitch goes up, the sound gets

Higher

300

What is it called when sound waves bounce off of something

Echo

400

Sound is a form of _________

Energy

400

The __________vibrates when sound waves hit it, and causes the tiny bones in the middle ear to vibrate as well.

Eardrum

400

What is the tube that leads to your inner ear?

Ear canal

400

The higher the volume the (louder/softer) the sound is.

Louder

400

Our voices produce sound when air from the lungs passes over our__________ and makes them vibrate

Vocal cords

500

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really make a sound?

Yes!!!

500

True or false: Sound travels best through solids

True

500
What is the invisible wave that is formed whenever sound is created

Sound wave

500
The more vibrations there are, the (higher/lower) the pitch.

Higher

500

The vibrations move through the bones to __________ where the sounds are changed into a form that is understood by brain.

Inner ear

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