Wave watching
An Earful
Move it
Musical matters
Natural sounds
100
high point of a transverse wave
What is a crest?
100
where wax can build up
What is the auditory canal?
100
the medium that sounds travel fastest in
What is a solid?
100
3 categories of musical instruments
What is strings, winds, and percussion?
100
the animal with the widest range of hearing
What is the bat?
200
distance between 2 crests
What is a wavelength?
200
made of cartilage and funnels sounds
What is the pinna?
200
The temperature that sound travels fastest in
What is warm/hot?
200
increased loudness from two vibrating objects
What is resonance?
200
the N in sonar
What is navigation?
300
distance between line of origin and crest
What is amplitude?
300
the smallest bone in the body
What is the stirrup?
300
happens when an object breaks the sound barrier
What is a sonic boom?
300
echoes heard after a sound stops
What is reverberation?
300
The R in sonar
What is ranging?
400
lowest point on a transverse wave
What is a trough?
400
carries the impulse to the brain
What is the auditory nerve?
400
going faster than the speed of sound
What is supersonic?
400
study of how sounds interact with the environment
What is acoustics?
400
sounds above the range of human hearing
What are ultrasounds?
500
a sound wave is this type wave
What is a longitudinal wave?
500
equalizes pressure in the middle ear
What is the eustachian tube?
500
changing of pitch when a sound is moving
What is the doppler effect?
500
The scientific name for the voice box
What is the larynx?
500
sounds below the range of human hearing
What are infrasounds?
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