Differences in Sounds

Your perception of the amount of sound energy reaching your ear.

• pitch

• loudness

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

A measure of how high or low a sound is

• pitch

• loudness

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Click the animal that could be louder.

Which instrument makes a low sound.

Which instrument makes a high sound?

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Changing the length of a vibrating object, you can change the pitch?

• true

• false

Changing the thickness of a vibrating string, can change the pitch?

• true

• false

​ When sound gets farther away from the object making the sound it gets ​ (a)   .

• softer
• louder

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NGSS.4-PS3-2

A sound with a high pitch would have

• a low frequency
• a high frequency
• a low amplitude
• a high amplitude

A measure of the average energy of motion of the particles in matter.

• energy

• kinetic energy

• thermal energy

• temperature

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4