Sound waves

What is a vibration that travels through a material such as air or water. Something you sense with your hearing.

• crest

• sound

• reflected

• echo

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

A sound or series of sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.

• echo

• medium

• pitch

• sound waves

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

How high or low the sound is determined by the frequency of the sound waves.

• absorption

• medium

• pitch

• amplitude

A substance in which a force acts or an effect is produced.

• wave length

• vibrate

• vacuum

• medium

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

To throw back light, heat or sound.

• reflected

• frequency

• matter

• transmission

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The height of a sound wave. (volume)

• frequency

• amplitude

• wavel length

• vibrate

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

The act of passing something along.

• sound wave

• reflected

• transmission

• amplitude

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The act of taking in and not reflecting or throwing back.

• volume

• vibrate

• energy

• absorption

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

• matter

• vibrate

• vacuum

• energy

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NGSS.MS-PS1-5

To cause a rapid motion back and forth.

• absorption

• vibrate

• energy

• volume

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1