Sound
Waves
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Vocab
100

How is sound made?

vibrations

100

How does energy travel?

Waves

100

What kind of mechanical wave is a sound wave?

longitudinal

100

What is the power to make things work, move, grow, and change?

energy

200

How does sound travel?

Through sound waves 
200

What type of energy wave needs a medium in order to travel?

mechanical waves

200

What type of mechanical waves are in the ocean?

surface waves

200

What is the number of waves in one period of time?

frequency

300
When the frequency of a sound changes, what also changes? 

The pitch

300

What type of energy wave does not need a medium in order to travel?

electromagnetic waves

300

What is the distance from the starting point of a wave to a peak or trough?

amplitude

400

What does sound need in order to travel?

Medium or matter 
400

What mechanical wave carries energy parallel to the direction of travel?

longitudinal

400
What are invisible energy, created by vibrating particles, that carry sound?

sound waves

500

What is the part of a sound wave where the particles are dense called?

compression

500

What type of mechanical wave carries energy perpendicular to the direction of travel?

transverse 

500

What is a change in an object's position?

motion