Sound Basics
At the most basic level, sound is a type of energy made by...
What are vibrations.
Sound travels in _______.
What are Waves?
There is no sound in space.
What is TRUE - because there is no medium (no molecules) for sound to travel through.
The job of the outside of the ear
What is to catch the sound waves?
The four families of musical instruments
What is brass, wind, percussion, and string?
The back and forth movement of matter.
What is a vibration?
The medium in which sound travels the fastest.
What is a solid?
Pitch is the loudness or softness of a sound.
What is FALSE - The loudness or softness is the VOLUME.
The thin membrane that receives the sound vibrations in your ear.
What is the ear drum?
The highness or lowness of a sound
What is pitch?
No vibration means . .
What is no sound?
The medium in which sound travels the slowest.
What is a gas?
The longer the xylophone bar, the lower the pitch.
What is TRUE
The number of bones in your ear
What is 3?
Name the family of a triangle. How do you know?
What is persussion because you hit it?
When sound bounces off and is reflected back.
What is an echo?
Sound travels the slowest in a gas because. . .
What is the molecules are farther apart?
When something vibrates faster, it has a higher pitch.
What is TRUE - faster = HIGHER pitch
The tunnel in your ear that carries the sound waves to the inner ear.
What is the ear canal?
What can you do to a guitar string to change the volume?
What is pluck it harder or softer?
Which has more energy, a LOUD noise or a QUIET noise?
What is a LOUD noise?
Sound travels through a solid the fastest because . .
What is the molecules are closer together?
Sound travels outward in all directions.
What is TRUE
The snail shaped part of the ear
What is the cochlea?
What could you do to a guitar string to make the pitch get higher?
You could tighten the string or make the string shorter.