Sound
Parts of the Ear
Pitch and Volume
Protecting Your Hearing
Bonus
100
This causes sound when something moves back and forth very quickly.
What are vibrations?
100
This part of the ear collects the sound. It is the only part of the ear that you can see.
What is the pinna or the outer ear?
100
This is how high or low a sound is.
What is the pitch?
100
You can wear these to protect your hearing.
What are ear plugs?
100
This animal is on the cover of your Science book.
What is a rooster?
200
This is how sound travels.
What are sound waves?
200
This part of the ear is a tunnel that sound travels through to get to the eardrum.
What is the ear canal?
200
This is used to measure the pitch of a sound.
What are hertz?
200
Your ears can tell you if you have been exposed to a sound that is too loud.
What is ringing in your ears?
200
We made these out of empty paper towel rolls, tissue paper, and rubber bands.
What is a kazoo?
300
When a sound hits and object and bounces back.
What is an echo?
300
As sound travels through the parts of the inner ear, it causes the liquid and tiny hairs in this part of the ear to vibrate.
What is the cochlea?
300
This animal can hear higher frequencies than humans.
What is the dog, cat, bat, or dolphin?
300
List the things that are safe to put in your ear.
What is nothing?
300
The sound that comes out of our mouth is caused by the vibration of these.
What are vocal cords?
400
Some sounds are background noise which are part of our environment. Other sounds are meant to do this.
What is communicate information?
400
This part of the ear sends the message to the brain.
What are of the nerves?
400
This is the loudness or softness of a sound
What is volume?
400
Anything louder than this many decibels can damage your hearing immediately.
What is 130 dB?
400
This is located at the end of your ear canal.
What is the ear drum?
500
There is one place that we know of where no sound can be heard.
What is outer space?
500
These canals are filled with liquid which help up maintain our balance.
What are semicircular canals?
500
The loudness or softness of a sound can be measured using this.
What are decibels?
500
List two types of jobs where you must wear protection for you ears
What are construction workers, airport workers, race car drivers, musicians, or gardeners that cut grass?
500
Sound can travel through the air. It can also travel through this.
What is water?
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