CKLA Unit 5 Lesson 10-Characteristics of Sound

CKLA Unit 5

Lesson 10-Characteristics of Sound

How are sound and light the same? How are they different?

Multiple Select

Check all that are true/correct:

• Light and Sound travel in waves.

• Sound must have a medium.

• Light travels faster than sound.

• Light needs a medium.

Both of these sounds travel through air. How are they different?

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Both of these sounds travel through air. How are they different?

• The baby makes a high-pitched “screeching” sound and an adult yelling makes a low-pitched, deep sound.

• The adult makes a high-pitched “screeching” sound and the baby yelling makes a low-pitched, deep sound.

What creates changes in pitch? Why is one sound high-pitched and another low-pitched?

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vibrations produce shorter sound waves, which make sounds with a higher pitch.

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vibrations produce sounds with longer sound waves, which make sounds with a lower pitch.

Multiple Choice

What kind of vibrations produce the sound waves of a baby crying?

• Faster

• Slower

Multiple Choice

“What kind of vibrations produce the sound waves of an adult yelling?

• Faster

• Slower

What are features of loud sounds?

Multiple Choice

What are features of loud sounds?

• Loud sounds are NOT intense. A loud sound doesn't travel far.

• Loud sounds have more intensity. A loud sound travels far, much farther than a quiet sound.

What should you do to protect your hearing from loud sounds?

Multiple Select

Click all that apply.

What should you do to protect your hearing from loud sounds?

• use earplugs

• wear goggles

• turn the volume down

Multiple Choice

What is pitch?

• Pitch is how loud or soft a sound is.

• Pitch is how high or low a sound is.

• Pitch is how fast sound travels through a medium.

• Pitch is the intensity of a sound.

Multiple Choice

What is volume?

• Volume is how high or low a sound is.

• Volume is the intensity of a sound.

• Volume is how long or short a sound wave is.

• Volume is how fast sound travels through a medium.

Multiple Choice

Which of these books would be the best to find out more facts about the characteristics of sound?

• Adventures in Light

• Can You Hear Me Now?

• All About Animals

• Experiments with Food

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from the selection:

Very loud sounds can damage your hearing.

Based on the sentence, which phrase best describes what loud sounds can do?

• They can make you hear well.

• They can hurt your hearing.

• They can make you able to hear from great distances.

• They can make you able to hear a whisper better.