Waves
A disturbance that travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave
What is sound?
a set of tones combined in a way that is pleasing to the ear
What is music?
How high or low a sound seems to a person
What is pitch?
The changing pitch of a ambulance ‘s siren as it moves by you is
What is the Doppler effect?
The 3 bones in the middle ear
What are the anvil, hammer and stirrup?
factor that determines the loudness of a sound
What is the amplitude of the sound wave?
Sound that generally has no pleasing patterns
What is noise?
Bats use to locate food and to navigate
What is echolocation?
Dolphins use to hunt at night
What is echolocation?
Shaped like a funnel
What is the ear canal?
Sound wave travel through
What are air, liquids and solids?
Increasing temperatures means the speed of sound in air will
What is increase?
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the arrows that run from B to C represent
show the sonar pic
What is reflected ultrasonic sound waves?
Part of your ear sound waves enter through
What is the ear canal?
This only has one natural frequency
What is fundamental tone?
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Type of sound waves produced by sonar devices
What is ultrasound?
Unit used to compare the loudness of different sounds
What is decibel?
Sends sound to auditory nerve
What is the cochlea?
Sound waves differ in intensity, the wave that is more intense sounds
What is louder?
Makes up the characteristic sound of an instrument
What is the blending of the fundamental tone and the overtones?
Chuck Yeager chose a high altitude to try to break the sound barrier because
What is the temperature was lower so the speed of sound is lower?
Distance between compression or rarefaction and the next compression or rarefaction
What is wavelength?
The 3 parts of the ear
What are the outer ear, middle ear, and the inner ear?