Science Sound Waves

When someone or something makes a sound in the room, how are the sound waves different from the ripples on a pond?

• Sound waves are different from ripples on a pond, because sound waves travel through the light.

• Sound waves are different from ripples on a pond, because sound waves travel through air.

What is wavelength?

• How high or low a pitch is.

• How loud a sound is.

• The length of a wave.

A high sound has a ______ wave length.

• long or spread out

• short or squished together

A low sound has a _________ wavelength.

• long or spread out

• short or squished together

__________ is the term scientists use to describe how ‘squished together’ or ‘spread out’ a wave is.

• Vibration

• Pitch

• Wavelength

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Low pitched sounds have long wave lengths.

• false

• true

Sound waves can travel through...

• through water

• through outer space

• through air

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What kind of animal sound would create a wavelength like this?

• whale

• bird

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A HUGE speaker is blasting sound toward the house. What will most likely happen?

• People will come out of the house and begin to dance.

• There will be an echo.

• The sound waves will cause the window to break.

• Nobody will notice.

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What is the primary medium through which sound waves travel?

• Air

• Light

• Vacuum

• Metal

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