Sound Vocabulary Review

What is created by moving areas of high and low pressure?

• opaque

• sound wave

• wavelength

• amplitude

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_________ is how high or low a sound is.

• volume

• pitch

• frequency

• wavelength

The loudness of a sound is its ____________.

• frequency

• volume

• pitch

• sound wave

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What is the amount of energy that a sound wave carries, which affects the volume of a sound?

• wavelength

• sound wave

• amplitude

• frequency

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PITCH describes

• how loud or quiet a sound is

• how high or low a sound is

• the volume of a sound

• the outer part of an ear

Volume describes ...

• the size of the sound

• the loudness or quietness of a sound

• how high or low a sound is

• how fast a sound travels

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Sound is (pick 2)

• silent

• a type of energy we hear

• a type of energy that travels in waves

• volume

What is the term for the speed at which sound travels through a medium?

• Frequency

• Pitch

• Velocity

• Amplitude

Which of the following is a unit used to measure the frequency of sound?

• Decibel

• Hertz

• Watt

• Newton

What is the phenomenon called when sound waves bounce off a surface?

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Reflection

• Absorption