6.P.1.3 Sound Waves and the Ear Vocabulary

is a mechanical wave that results from the back and forth vibration of the particles of the medium through which the sound wave is moving.

• Volume

• Pitch

• Sound

• Nerves

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is the loudness or the softness of a sound.

• Volume

• Pitch

• Compression

• Pinna

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is the highest or lowest sound an object makes.

• Volume

• Pitch

• Stirrup

• Hammer

is a wave in which the motion of the medium’s particles is parallel to the direction of the energy transport.

• Rarefaction

• Transverse wave

• Mechanical wave

• Longitudinal wave

a region in a longitudinal wave where the particles are farthest apart.

• Compression

• Crest

• Rarefaction

• Trough

a region in a longitudinal wave where the particles are closest together.

• Compression

• Wavelength

• Frequency

• Rarefaction

(also called the incus) a tiny bone that passes vibrations from the hammer to the stirrup.

• Anvil
• Pinna

• Cochlea

• Nerves

A spiral-shaped, fluid-filled, inner ear structure; it is lined with cilia (tiny hairs) that move when vibrated and cause a nerve impulse to form.

• Pinna

• Anvil

• Nerves

• Cochlea

The tube through which sound travels to the ear drum.

• Ear canal

• Ear drum

• Hammer

• Anvil

(Also called the tympanic membrane) a thin membrane that vibrates when sound waves reach it.

• Pinna

• Ear drum

• Ear canal

• Rarefaction

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