Waves
What is energy?
The three bones in the middle ear.
What is the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Type of waves earthquakes create.
What is seismic?
A wave that needs a medium to travel.
What is mechanical wave?
A light wave is this type of wave.
What is electromagnetic? or What is transverse?
Dropping a pebble in water causes this.
What is vibrations?
The ear receives sound waves as this.
What are vibrations?
Amount of waves in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
Loudness depends on this property.
What is amplitude (wave height)?
This wave can pass through a vacuum.
What is electromagnetic wave?
What is wavelength?
The part of the ear that sends signals to the brain, and when damaged, a person can become deaf.
What is the cochlea?
A place that matter can travel in.
What is a medium?
The reason thunder is heard after lightening is seen.
What is light travels faster than sound?
A tone lower in pitch is lower in this property.
What is frequency?
A compression or rarefaction is farthest apart in a sound wave?
These two parts are parts of the outer ear.
What are pinna and ear canal?
This measures how high or low a sound is perceived to be.
What is pitch?
Decibels are units used to measure this.
What is loudness (or amplitude)?
The name of the property that happens when a car moves towards you with its honking horn moves towards you and then drives away.
What is the doppler effect?
The medium that sound moves the fastest. (steel or a vaccuum)
What is steel?
Sound waves generally travel fastest in this type of matter.
What is solid?
A sound wave is this type of wave.
The extent to which a sound can be heard.
What is loudness?
Bats find their food using this.
What is high pitch sounds/echoes?