Sound misc
How you hear
Properties of Sound
Interactions of Sound
Sound misc II
100
The type of wave that is a sound wave.
What are longitudinal or compression waves?
100
The part of your ear that acts as a funnel for sound wave.
What is the outer ear?
100
The most common unit that is used to measure sound.
What is the decibel?
100
When sound is reflected after it strikes a barrier.
What is an echo?
100
A way we use sound to avoid invasive surgery.
What is an ultrasound?
200
A substance through which a wave can travel.
What is a medium?
200
The parts of the ear that compose the middle ear or ear drum.
What are the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup?
200
How high or low a sound seems to be.
What is the pitch?
200
The explosive sound heard when a shock wave reaches your ears.
What is a sonic boom?
200
The complete back and forth motion of an object.
What is a vibration?
300
The organ that interprets what our ears hear.
What is the brain?
300
The bone that creates waves in the inner ear
What is the stirrup?
300
The colder it is, the slower the speed of sound.
What is the medium
300
When two or more waves overlap.
What is interference?
300
Sound travels at 12,000 m/s through it.
What is a diamond?
400
Ear plugs and avoidance to loud sounds.
How you can protect your hearing?
400
The nerve that transmits from the ear to the brain.
What is the auditory nerve?
400
The unit we measure the frequency of sound waves.
What is hertz (Hz)?
400
When animals use echoes to find food.
What is echolocation?
400
When two or more waves overlap each other and the amplitude increases.
What is constructive interference?
500
A ringing in the ears that may go away in time.
What is tinnitus?
500
The snail-shell shaped fluid filled sack.
What is the cochlea?
500
The apparent change in frequency of a sound caused by motion.
What is the doppler effect?
500
Man made echolocation
What is sonar?
500
When an object vibrating at or near a second object causes the second object to vibrate.
What is a resonance?
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