Sound Waves
A quick back and forth movement.
What is a vibration.
Length of a single wave cycle. Measured by the distance between 2 identical points on consecutive waves.
What is a wavelength.
A sound wave is this type of wave.
What is a longitudinal.
The bouncing back of a sound wave off of a barrier creates?
What is an echo.
When the frequency of a wave decreases, the pitch _________________.
What is a decreases
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch.
The unit of measure for frequency and pitch.
What is hertz.
A sound wave can not travel through outer space because of the lack of .
What is matter.
Mechanical waves need a ______________ to travel through.
What is a medium
The volume of a sound.
What is amplitude.
The number of wave cycles that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency.
If I wanted to decrease the intensity of a sound I would need to decrease the waves.....?
What is amplitude (energy)
Kinetic Energy is Energy of ___________.
What is Motion.
Sound is a ______________ wave.
What is a mechanical wave
_________ frequency waves have more energy.
What is high frequency?
_________ energy = stored energy
What is potential energy.
Particles move up and down in this type of wave.
What is a transverse wave?
Particles move back and forth (or side to side) in this type of wave.
What is a longitudinal wave.
The name of the effect that causes a sound to have a higher or lower pitch due to the waves getting closer together or farther apart.
What is the doppler effect?
What waves transfer
_________ frequency waves have more energy.
What is high frequency.