Vocabulary
A rapid back-and-forth movement
What is vibration?
The four characteristics of sound.
What are pitch, loudness, duration and timbre?
When there are many vibrations per second.
What is a high pitch?
The animal that makes a sound by moving its wings.
What is a cricket?
The country Emily is from.
What is the United States (USA)?
Waves that follow a regular pattern. (Hint: This is something you can hear)
What is sound?
The length of time a sound vibration is maintained.
What is duration?
When there are few vibrations per second.
What is a low pitch?
The object used to tune a piano.
What is a tuning fork?
The state Emily is from.
What is California?
Waves that follow an irregular pattern. These waves are hard to measure.
What is noise?
This characteristic of sound can be described as high or low.
What is pitch?
Can sound waves travel through water?
Yes, sound waves can travel through water.
Which sound is louder? The sound of a helicopter or a frog?
The sound of a helicopter.
The state capital of California.
What is Sacramento?
Vibrations that move through the air or water.
What are sound waves?
This is also called volume. It can be described as soft or loud.
What is loudness?
True/False
A violin has the same timbre as a trumpet?
False
The object the kids use to make a kazoo.
What is a straw?
Emily's favorite musical instrument.
What is the violin?
The thing that transmits sound. (What the sound waves move through)
What is a medium?
The quality of sound that tells us what produced it.
What is timbre?
A factor that affects loudness.
What is the distance between the emitter(source of the sound) and the listener?
AND/OR
What is the density of the medium that transmits the sound?