Sound Vocab Words

What is vibration?

• a slow steady sound

• quickly moving back and forth from a point

• a hard pounding sound

• how high or low a sound is

What is volume?

• a slow steady sound

• how much variety a sound has

• how loud or soft a sound is

• how high or low a sound is

What is pitch?

• a slow steady sound

• how much variety a sound has

• how loud or soft a sound is

• how high or low a sound is

What is sound?

• the number of crests and troughs of a wave that pass over an amount of time

• the repetition of a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves

• a form of energy that is produced by vibrating objects

• how high or low a sound is

What is frequency?

• the number of crests and troughs of a wave that pass over an amount of time

• the repetition of a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves

• a form of energy that is produced by vibrating objects

• how high or low a sound is

What is echo?

• the number of crests and troughs of a wave that pass over an amount of time

• the repetition of a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves

• a form of energy that is produced by vibrating objects

• how high or low a sound is

What are sound waves?

• vibrations that move back and forth

• the repetition of a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves

• the tightness of an object

• how much variety a sound has

What is tension?

• vibrations that move back and forth

• the repetition of a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves

• the tightness of an object

• how much variety a sound has

What is amplitude?

• two pronged steel device used by musicians that vibrates when struck to give a note to a specific pitch

• a device musicians use that they sing into to amplify their voice

• the tightness of an object

• the size or intensity of a sound waves frequency

What is a tuning fork??

• two pronged steel device used by musicians that vibrates when struck to give a note to a specific pitch

• a device musicians use that they sing into to amplify their voice

• the tightness of an object

• the size or intensity of a sound wave's frequency