Terms
Human Ear
Sound
Music and Sound
Terms
100

When you speak or sing, you force air from your lungs up through your

larynx, cochlea, anvil, hammer

What is the larynx

100

Sound waves with frequencies above the normal human range of hearing are called

pitch, echolocation, ultrasound, acoustics

What is ultrasound?

100

When the frequency of sound waves matches the natural frequency of an object, the result can be

dissonance, infrasound, ultrasound, resonance

What is resonance?

100

The note C-sharp played on a trumpet sounds different from the same note played on an oboe because of 

pitch, density, timbre, resonance


What is timbre?

100

The pitch of a sound depends on the 

amplitude of the sound wave

interference of the sound waves

intensity of the sound wave

frequency of the sound wave

What is the frequency of the sound wave?

200

The sound produced when notes that seem to have no musical relationship are played together is called

resonance, infrasound, ultrasound, dissonance

What is dissonance?

200

Between the ear canal and the middle ear is the 

eardrum, hammer, anvil, cochlea

What is the eardrum?

200

Sound travels more           in air than in water

speedy, slowly, droopily, quickly

What is slowly?

200

One of the main differences between music and noise is that music is                     to the ear

uncomfortable, hard, pleasing, angry

What is pleasing?

200

When sound waves interfere, the resulting sound

is always louder

is always softer

is of a different pitch

may be louder or softer

What is may be louder or softer?

300

The speed of sound depends on all of the following EXCEPT

temperature, loudness, elasticity, density

What is loudness?

300

The part of the ear that translates sound waves into nerve impulses is the 

cochlea, eardrum, hammer, anvil

What is the cochlea?

300

A sonar device measures the time it takes to detect

beats of a sound

time it takes to detect a reflected sound wave

time it takes to track an animal

pitch of a sound

What is time it takes to detect a reflected sound wave?

300

A small drum produces a                   pitch than a larger drum does

lower, medium, higher, equal

What is higher?

300

The following are all applications of echoes EXCEPT

sonar, echolocation, ultrasound, resonance

What is resonance?

400

The intensity of sound wave is

measured in decibels

inversely proportional to loudness

the amount of energy the wave carries

determined by how much the sound is below the normal human range of hearing

What is the amount of energy the wave carries?

400

The eardrum is in the

outer ear

middle ear

inner ear

whole ear

What is the outer ear?

400

Sound frequencies above the normal human range of hearing are called

infrasound, sound waves, pitch, ultrasound

What is ultrasound?

400

You notice one key on a piano if playing a note with a pitch that is slightly too high, What would you do to the piano string to fix this problem?

tighten, open up, loosen, close down

What is loosen the string?

400

Many people suffer hear loss as a result of any of the following EXCEPT 

aging, dissonance, injury, infection

What is dissonance?
500

The study of how well sounds can be heard in a particular room is called

acoustics, the Doppler effect, pitch, echolocation

What is acoustics?

500

As a police car speeds by, the pitch of the siren seems to change because of 

Timbre

Acoustics

The Doppler effect

Sonogram

What is the Doppler effect?

500

Sounds with frequencies below the normal range of human hearing are called

infrasound, ultrasound, sound waves, pitch

What is infrasound?

500

When the interference is destructive, compressions of one wave occur at the same place as rarefactions of another wave and the amplitudes do what to each other

cancel each other out

create a bigger noise

make seismic waves

never existed


What is cancel each other out?

500

Sound is a disturbance that travels through a medium as a 

primary wave

longitudinal wave

surface wave

seismic wave

What is a longitudinal wave?