Sound Energy Vocabulary

How high or low a sound is

• volume

• pitch

• vibration

• reflect

how loud or soft a sound is

• absorb

• vacuum

• medium

• volume

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A state of matter (solid, liquid or gas) in which sound waves travel through

• volume

• vibration

• medium

• vacuum

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An area of empty space like outer space where there is no matter. Sound cannot travel through this like light energy can!

• medium

• vacuum

• reflect

• pitch

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the back in forth movement of molecules which causes sounds we hear

• pitch

• volume

• medium

• vibration

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Soft objects that "soak up" sound waves and no not let them bounce back. This results in a quieter room!

• reflect

• medium

• absorb

• vacuum

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Hard/solid objects that sounds waves "bounce off" of and result in a echo that we hear

• volume

• reflect

• medium

• absorb

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