Sound Waves, Pitches and Volume

What is volume?

• The intensity of a sound.

• How low or high a sound is.

• Something we measure in math.

• How loud a sound is.

What is pitch?

• How loud or soft a sound is.

• When you throw a baseball.

• How high or low sound is.

• The sound that you hear.

This instrument has a ____ pitch.

• high

• loud

• quiet

• low

This train whistle has a ______ volume.

• loud

• high

• quiet

• low

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Volume measures how low or high a sound is while pitch measures how loud or soft a sound is.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

If a sound has a loud volume, it must have a high pitch.

• True

• False

If we describe a sound as loud, we are describing the ________.

• pitch

• noise

• volume

• vibrations

Tags

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If we are describing how low or high a sound is, we are describing the ______.

• noise

• volume

• pitch

• waves

A sound with a high pitch can have a ________ volume.

• low or high

• loud

• loud or soft

• soft

A sound with a soft volume can have a ________ pitch.

• low

• low or high

• loud or soft

• high