Sound Waves

A disturbance that travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave

• sound

• wavelength

• pitch

• frequency

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

The number of wavelengths that pass a point each second

• frequency

• wavelength

• pitch

• amplitude

Material (matter) through which a wave travels

• medium

• Doppler Effect

• sound

• pitch

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

How high or low a sound is; depends on the frequency (greater frequency= higher pitch)

• pitch

• frequency

• sound

• medium

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

A wave in which the vibration is in the same direction as that in which the wave is traveling; sound waves

• longitudinal wave

• ocean wave

• transverse wave

• mechanical wave

The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together.

• rarefaction

• compression

• crest

• trough

The number of wavelengths that pass a point each second

• crest

• amplitude

• frequency

• pitch

Highest point of a wave

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

• frequency

What is transported by a wave?

• air

• energy

• matter

• particles

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

The term for how high or low a sound is:

• pitch

• volume

• sound

• medium