Sound Vocabulary

a series of rarefactions and compressions traveling through a distance

• medium

• frequence

• amplitude

• sound wave

substance through which a wave travels

• compressions

• medium

• pitch

• amplitude

the transfer of energy when a wave disappears into a surface

• sound wave

• compression

• absorption

• frequency

the number of times an object vibrates per second

• frequency

• pitch

• medium

• echolocation

how high or low a sound is

• pitch

• medium

• rarefactions

• amplitude

the height of a sound wave, which determines its volume

• sound wave

• pitch

• amplitude

• rarefactions

finding an object by using reflected sound

• medium

• frequency

• amplitude

• echolocation

regions of air that have many particles

• absorption

• compressions

• rarefactions

• medium

regions of air that have few particles

• amplitude

• compressions

• rarefactions

• sound wave