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Know the terms
It's the wave
How 'ya hear
All that shaking
Can you hear me?
100
Sound wave made by an object moving faster than the speed of sound
What is a sonic boom?
100
Measure of how high or low a sound is
What is pitch?
100
The outer part of the ear that we see
What is the outer ear?
100
How sound travels
What is by vibration?
100
The sound of a fire truck is very soft. The location of the truck is
What is far away?
200
Series of vibrations that can be heard
What is sound?
200
Measure of energy a wave creates
What is amplitude?
200
The part of the ear that has the eardrum, hammer, anvil, and stirrup
What is the middle ear?
200
A rock dropped in a pond
What is the pattern of sound waves?
200
Where no sound can travel
What is outer space?
300
Area where air is pushed together by vibrations
What is compression?
300
Rate of travel of a sound wave
What is speed of sound?
300
The chohlea and nerves that take messages to the brain
What is the Inner Ear?
300
The higher the pitch of a stringed instrument
What is the shorter the string?
300
The absence of these makes it impossible for astronauts to hear each other
What are air particles?
400
Reflection of a sound wave
What is an echo?
400
Moving areas of high and low pressure
What is sound wave?
400
Three bones found in the ear
What are the hammer, anvil, stirrup?
400
If an instrument has very long, thick strings, the pitch will be
What is low pitch?
400
If you stick something deep into your ear, you may puncture this
What is the eardrum?
500
Measure of sound energy reaching your ear
What is sound?
500
Measure of the distance between a point on one wave and the same point on the next wave
What is a wave length?
500
The narrow tube through which sound wave enter the ear
What is the ear canal?
500
The type of matter that sound travels most quickly through
What is solid?
500
Of these two, sound and light, this travels the fastest
What is light?