The Nature of Sound
Properties of Sound
Music
How you Hear Sound
Using Sound
100
This is a disturbance that travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave.
What is Sound
100
This is the perception of the energy of a sound
What is Loudness
100
This is a set of notes that combine in patterns that are pleasing
What is music
100
What are the three main sections of the ear
The outer ear, middle ear, and the inner ear
100
The is the use of reflective sound waves to determine distances or to locate objects.
What is echolocation
200
A sound begins with a ?
What is a vibration
200
The loudness of a sound depends on two factors.
What is the amount of energy it takes to make the sound an the distance form the source of the sound.
200
The lowest natural frequency of an object
What is fundamental tone
200
This is a small, tightly stretched, drum like membrane.
What is the ear drum
200
Name two animals that use echolocation
What are bats, dolphins, porpoises and whales
300
Sound waves can travel through what mediums
What is air, solid and liquids
300
The sound of how high or low the sound seems to a person
What is pitch
300
An objects higher natural frequencies
What is overtunes
300
The middle ear contains the three smallest bones in your body
What is the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup
300
What are two ultra sound technologies
What are ultra sound and sonar
400
When a sound source moves, the frequency of the waves changes because the motion of the source adds to the motion of the waves
What is the Doppler effect
400
There are three basic groups of musical instruments
What are stringed instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments
400
This is a fluid- filled cavity in the inner ear, shaped like a snail shell
What is the cochlea
400
This device uses the reflected ultrasound waves to create a picture.
What is a sonogram
500
The speed of sound depends on what of the medium
What is elasticity, density, and temperture
500
Sound waves with frequencies above and below the normal human range
What is ultrasound and infrasound
500
this is the study of how sound interact with each other and the enviroment
What is acoustics
500
There are many causes of hearing loss, name three
What is injury, infection, exposure to loud sounds and aging
500
The word sonar comes from the initial letters
What is Sound, navigation and ranging
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