Vocabulary
How high or low a sound is...
pitch
Sound can travel the fastest through this medium...
solids
To create a high pitch on a guitar, I would do this...
place a finger on the fret, shorten the string, tighten the string
When striking a tuning fork and placing it in water, this will happen to the water...
The water will begin to spray out due to the vibrations
This happens when a short thing piano string is pressed down...
There is a high pitch noise
How loud or soft a sound is...
volume
Sound travels the slowest through this medium...
To increase the volume of a sound, I would need to...
increase the amount of energy
When I fill bottles with water and tap the sides, which bottle will have the highest pitch?
The bottle with the least amount of water/the empty bottle
The matter that sound travels through is called...
a medium
To move back and forth rapidly...
vibrate
If I want to soundproof a room, I should fill it with these types of materials...
soft, absorbent, squishy, etc.
When playing my ukulele, one of the strings sounds too high. How can I make it sound like the other ukuleles?
loosen the string, remove any fingers on the frets, lengthen the string.
During my trip to the moon, I tried yelling something but the sound did not travel. Why?
There were no molecules for the sound waves to bounce into
All sounds are caused by...
vibrations
echo
In a race between light and sound, this energy type would win...
light
I want to make a drumset with different pitches. I would do this by...
pulling the skins to different tightness levels, making some drum heads larger than others
When I touch the tip of the tuning fork, the sound stops. Why?
You have stopped the vibration.
A form of energy that you can hear that travels in waves...
sound
When animals use reflected sounds to find certain objects...
echolocation
remove soft surfaces, have hard flat surfaces
To decrease the volume of an object, I would need to...
decrease the amount of energy
If I'm really mad, but I don't want people to hear me scream, what should I scream into?
A pillow/a soft absorbent material
If I want to see a visual representation of sound waves, I would use this tool...
an oscilloscope