Pitch & Amplitude
What does pitch tell us about a sound?
✅ How high or low it is
🔔 What is resonance?
✅ When an object vibrates strongly because of sound
🚑 What happens to sound when something moves toward you?
✅ It sounds higher
What makes sound in all instruments?
✅ Vibrations
👂 Sound is made when something…
✅ Vibrates
📣 What does amplitude tell us about a sound?
✅ How loud or soft it is
🥄 Why does a glass ring when you tap it?
✅ Resonance
🚓 What happens to sound when something moves away from you?
✅ It sounds lower
🥁 What part of a drum vibrates?
✅ The stretched surface
📈 Bigger vibrations make sounds…
✅ Louder
🎶 Which sound has a higher pitch: a whistle or a drum?
✅ A whistle
🎸 Why does a guitar sound louder than just the string alone?
✅ Resonance in the body
🚒 Which shows the Doppler effect?
A. Echo
B. Siren changing sound
C. Whisper
✅ B
🎹 Short bars on a xylophone make ____ pitch sounds.
✅ Higher
🎵 High sounds have higher…
✅ Pitch
👏 What happens to amplitude when you clap louder?
✅ It increases
🏫 Why does your voice sound louder in an empty gym?
✅ Because of resonance
👂 The Doppler effect happens because the sound source is…
✅ Moving
🎻 What happens when a string is tightened?
✅ Pitch becomes higher
📣 Loud sounds have more…
✅ Amplitude
🤔 Does hitting a drum harder change pitch or amplitude?
✅ Amplitude
✔️ True or False: Resonance can make sounds louder.
✅ True
🚂 When a train passes by, the sound changes because of…
✅ The Doppler effect
✔️ True or False: Instruments can make loud and soft sounds.
✅ True
🚨 A passing siren changing sound is an example of…
✅ The Doppler effect