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Nature of Sound
Properties of Sound
Combining Sound waves
How you Hear
Applications of Sound
100
Sound travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave
What is type of wave sound travels through
100
The pitch of a sound depends on
What is intensity of the sound wave
100
Pitch produced by the resonant frequency
What is fundamental tone
100
The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are the three smallest bones found in the
What is middle ear
100
Sonar, ultrasound, and echolocation are all applications of
What is echoes
200
When you speak or sing, you force air from your lungs up through your voice box or
What is larynx
200
The intensity of a sound wave is the amount of
What is energy the wave carries
200
The repeated changes in loudness that occurs when sound waves interfere both constructively and destructively
What is beats
200
Found between the ear canal and the middle ear
What is the ear drum
200
Sonar is used to find
What is distance
300
Sound can only travel if there is a medium to transmit the compressions and rarefactions, therefore there is no
What is sound in outer space
300
Sound waves with frequencies above the normal human range of hearing are called
What is ultrasound
300
The study of how well sounds can be heard in a particular room
What is acoustics
300
Part of the ear that translates sound waves into nerve impulses
What is cochlea
300
Sonar device measure the
What is time it takes to detect reflected sound waves
400
What happens to sound that when someone is calling to you from another room you can still hear them.
What is Diffraction
400
The apparent change in frequency as a wave source moves in relation to the listener
What is the Doppler effect
400
When sound waves interfere the resulting sound may be
What is louder or softer
400
Part of the ear converts vibrations caused by sound waves int messages the brain can understand
What is inner ear
400
Name of a picture of the inside of the human body using ultrasound
What is sonogram
500
The three properties of a medium that the speed of sound depend on
What is elasticity, density, and temperature
500
Units used to measure loudness
What is decibels
500
Sound produced when notes that have no musical relationship are played together
What is dissonance
500
Par to the ear transmits the vibrations caused by the sound waves to the cochlea
What is middle ear
500
Sound travels faster through air at 25 degrees Celsius than it does at 0 degrees Celsius. This shows that sound travels
What is more slowly at lower temperatures