VA Sound 5.5 (2018 SOLs)

Sound is a form of ______ energy made by ______ matter.

• Thermal, vibrating

• Radiant, oscillating

• Mechanical, vibrating

• Mechanical, echoing

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

A back and forth motion of an object

• Vibration

• Oscillation

• Compression

• Rarefaction

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

The movement of sound energy through air, liquid, or solid

• Compressions

• Sound waves

• Rarefactions

• Transverse waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The result of molecules being squeezed or pressed together

• Rarefactions

• Oscillations

• Vibrations

• Compressions

Distance between two crests or two troughs of a wave

• Crest

• Wavelength

• Rarefaction

• Trough

Places where the molecules of air are not squeezed and are spread apart

• Rarefaction

• Compression

How high or low a sound is. This is determined by frequency

• Frequency

• Pitch

• Vibrations

The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time: the higher the frequency, the higher the pitch

• Amplitude

• Pitch

• Frequency

• Volume

Produced by larger, longer, or thicker vibrating objects

• High pitch

• Low frequency

• Low pitch

• High frequency

Produced by smaller, shorter, or thinner (or stretched) vibrating objects

• Low pitch

• High frequency

• Low frequency

• High pitch