The nature of sound
A sound wave begins with a _____________.
What is vibration?
Frequency is measured in______.
What is hertz?
A liquid filled cavity shaped like a snail shell is _________.
What is the cochlea?
The use of reflected sound waves to determine distance to locate objects.
What is echolocation?
A disturbance involving the transfer of energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
Sound is a disturbance that travels through a medium as a __________________.
What is a longitudinal wave?
The pitch of a sound you hear depends on the _____ of thesound wave.
What is frequency?
This part of your ear holds he hammer, the anvil, and the stirrrup.
What a s middle ear?
Sound waves with frequencies above the normal human range of hearing.
What is ultra sound?
A wave that vibrates the medium at right angles, or Perpendicular, to the direction of which the wave travels.
What is a transverse wave?
Sound travels slower at ___________ tempatures..
What is lower?
The frequency of a sound wave depends on how ______ the source of the sound is vibrating.
What is fast?
Your ear gathers ___ ___ and sends information about the sound to your ___.
What is sound waves, brain?
Dolphins use ultrasound waves with frequencies up to 150,000 hz to move and hunt in ______ water.
What is murky?
The types of ________ waves are transverse, longitudinal, and surface waves.
What is mechanical?
The speed of sound depends on the _________,_______, and _________.
What is tempature, density, and stiffness?
A cat can hear up to _____________ hertz.
What is 45-64,000
The ear has three ________ sections the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear.
What is main?
The device uses the reflected waves to create a picture.
What is sonogram?
The device uses the reflected waves to create a picture.
What is sonogram?
_______ are not very stiff.
What is gasses?
The ______ of a sound you can hear depends on the frequency of the sound wave.
What is pitch?
A ____ implant implant can restore the ability to hear.
What is cochlear?
Dolphins sense the reflected sound waves through their ___________.
What is jawbone?
Mechanical waves form when a source of _____ causes a medium to _____.
What is energy, vibrate?