SOUND WAVES VOCABULARY/ROOT WORDS

What is SOUND?

• The sensation perceived by the sense of hearing

• A LONGITUDINAL WAVE that is caused by vibrations and travels through a medium

• What you actually hear.

  
  

• How high or low the sound seems to a person.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What is PITCH?

• The sensation perceived by the sense of hearing

• A LONGITUDINAL WAVE that is caused by vibrations and travels through a medium

• What you actually hear.

  
  

• How high or low the sound seems to a person.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is LOUDNESS?

• The sensation perceived by the sense of hearing

• A LONGITUDINAL WAVE that is caused by vibrations and travels through a medium

• What you actually hear.

  
  

• How high or low the sound seems to a person.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is a SOUND WAVE?

• The sensation perceived by the sense of hearing

• A LONGITUDINAL WAVE that is caused by vibrations and travels through a medium

• What you actually hear.

  
  

• How high or low the sound seems to a person.

What are the 3 physical properties of SOUND MEDIUMS?

• frequency

• density

• temperature

  
  

• elasticity

What is ELASTICITY?

• How hot or cold and object is.

• The ability of a material to bounce 

  back after being disturbed.

• How much matter is in a specific amount of space.

• The apparent change in amplitude as a wave source moves in relation to the listener

What is the DOPPER EFFECT?

• How hot or cold and object is.

• The ability of a material to bounce 

  back after being disturbed.

• How much matter is in a specific amount of space.

• The apparent change in amplitude as a wave source moves in relation to the listener

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

What is DENSITY?

• How hot or cold and object is.

• The ability of a material to bounce 

  back after being disturbed.

• How much matter is in a specific amount of space.

• The apparent change in amplitude as a wave source moves in relation to the listener

What is TEMPERATURE?

• How hot or cold and object is.

• The ability of a material to bounce 

  back after being disturbed.

• How much matter is in a specific amount of space.

• The apparent change in amplitude as a wave source moves in relation to the listener

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What is measured in Decibles?

• Pitch

• Intensity

• Loudness

• Sound