Vocabulary
The Ear
How Does It Sound?
Experiments
Fun Facts
100
A sound that bounces back to the listener.
What is an echo?
100
This is the name of the part of the ear that has the tiny hairs inside it.
What is the cochlea?
100
Would a short or long reed instrument make the higher pitched sound?
What is short?
100
When the ruler was hanging far off of the desk, there was a (high or low) pitch
What is low?
100
Why do boys have deeper voices than girls?
Because boys have longer vocal chords! Longer = Lower
200
The number of times the back and forth movement occurs in a second
What is frequency?
200
This is the part of the ear that brings in the sound.
What is the outer ear?
200
When we make a high pitched sound with our throats, what do our vocal chords do?
Our vocal chords tighten
200
What is faster, light or sound?
What is light?
200
Why does your voice change as you get older?
Your vocal chords get longer! Longer = Lower!
300
The name for a repeated back and forth motion
What are vibrations?
300
These are the types of nerves that send information to your brain.
What are auditory nerves?
300
The pitch of the shorter tuning fork is higher, because the _____________ of its vibrations is higher
What is frequency?
300
What causes sound?
What are vibrations?
400
The word that describes how loud or quiet a sound is.
What is volume?
400
This is a part of your ear that is named after a musical instrument. It vibrates to make the 3 Bones vibrate.
What is the ear drum?
400
The tighter the string is, the ___________ the pitch is
What is higher?
400
What makes a higher pitch? A thin string or a thick string?
What is a thin string?
400
What do sound waves look like if the noise is loud? (Tall or short)
What is tall?
500
The word that describes how low, medium, or high a sound is
What is pitch?
500
Draw a diagram of the ear.
Draw a correct diagram of the ear.
500
The thicker the string is, the ____________ the pitch is
What is lower?
500
Which produces more vibrations: a short tuning fork or a long tuning fork?
What is a short tuning fork? (This is a tricky one. Just because we can SEE more vibrations with the long tuning fork doesn't mean there ARE more vibrations. It just means that the vibrations from the short tuning fork are moving too fast for us to see!)
500
What do the sound waves look like if the pitch is high?
The sound waves are high!
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