Sound Energy Vocabulary

vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person or animal's ear

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A series of rarefactions and compressions traveling through a substance

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Process of making something less dense

Making something more dense or squeezing together

A substance through which a wave travels

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A space which contains little or no matter

The transfer of energy when a wave disappears into a surface

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The number of times an object vibrates per second

How low or high a sound is

The height of a sound wave

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