WorksheetsUnit 3: Waves and Sound
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is a sound wave?
A pattern of vibrations caused by a disturbance
ocean water moving back and forth
guitar strings moving back and forth
Sound waves can travel through a medium. What is a medium?
Any solid, liquid, or gas sound travels through
Anything that is not matter
Empty space
What is the WAVELENGTH of a sound wave? *
How many waves pass through a point in 1 second
The height of a wave from the resting point to crest
The measurement from crest to crest or trough to trough
What is the AMPLITUDE of a sound wave?
The measurement from crest to crest or trough to trough
The height of a wave from the resting point to crest
How many waves pass through a point in 1 second
What is the FREQUENCY of a sound wave? *
The measurement from crest to crest or trough to trough
The height of a wave from the resting point to crest
How many waves pass through a point in 1 second
FREQUENCY of a sound relates to the sound's ...
Volume
Pitch
Loudness
Sound
AMPLITUDE of a sound relates to the sound's ...
Volume
Pitch
Highness
Sound
What is #1?
(a)
What is #2?
(a)
What is #3?
(a)
What is #7?
(a)
What is the group of #11, 12, and 13 called?
(a)
First, sound waves travel through the air to our ear.
The pinna acts like a _______ to catch the sound waves in the ear canal.
Funnel
Canal
Straw
Sound
PUT THESE STEPS IN THE RIGHT ORDER
A. Sound vibrations travel through the air to our ears
B. The sound waves make the ear drum vibrate
C. The vibrating ossicles make the cochlea vibrate which sends messages to the brain.
D. Sound waves travel in the pinna and through the ear canal
E. The vibrating ear drum makes the ossicles vibrate
A, B, D, C, E
A, B, C, D, E
A, D, B, E, C
