Nature of Sound
Properties of Sound
Hearing Sound
Using Sound
Miscellaneous
100
Type of wave that carries sound
What is a longitudinal wave?
100
The amount of energy the sound wave carries per second through a unit area.
What is intensity?
100
Describes the quality of the sound.
What is timbre?
100
The device that measures the time it takes to detect the reflected sound waves.
What is sonar?
100
Man who first broke the air speed record.
Who was Chuck Yeager?
200
Another name for the voice box
What is the larynx?
200
Describes what you actually hear.
What is loudness?
200
Sounds that are pleasing to the ear.
What is music?
200
Bats use this to navigate and find food.
What is echolocation?
200
When sound waves match the natural vibrational frequency of an object.
What is resonance?
300
The reason sound does not travel in outer space
What is there are no molecules of matter for sound to travel through?
300
The unit used to measure the loudness of sound.
What is a decibel?
300
The three main regions of the ear.
What are the outer, middle, and inner ear ?
300
Sounds above the normal range of human hearing.
What is ultrasound?
300
The apparent change of wavelengths of sound depending on the position of the listener in relation to the sound.
What is the Doppler effect?
400
The ability of a material to bounce back after being disturbed.
What is elasticity?
400
The number of waves that pass a given point in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
400
The snail-shaped tube in the ear lined with receptor cells.
What is the cochlea?
400
Sounds below the normal range of human hearing.
What is infrasound?
400
Sound that has no pleasing timbre and no identifiable pitch.
What is noise?
500
The speed at which sound travels depends on these three things.
What is elasticity, density, and temperature of the medium?
500
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
500
The three smallest bones in the body located in the middle ear that aid in hearing.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
500
A picture doctors get of something in the human body using ultrasound waves.
What is a sonogram?
500
Name the 4 different categories of musical instruments.
What are strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion?
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