Science of Sound Flashcards
What is volume?
Loud or quiet sounds
What is pitch?
High or Low
What is frequency?
High or low
What happens when an object vibrates?
Makes a sound
A unwanted, and unpleasant sound.
Noise
What is timbre?
Quality of sound
What is amplitude?
The height of the sound.
A bird has a ________ pitch.
High
A cow has a ________ pitch
Low
The quieter the sound the ________ the sound wave.
Shorter
Does a sound travel through air or metal faster?
Metal
A quick back and forth motion.
Vibration
What vibrates on a guitar?
Strings
A slow vibration produces a _______ sound.
Soft
How do you increase the volume on a drum?
Hit it harder
What do you do to a string to make a higher pitch? Tighten or loosen?
Tighten
When volume increases, pitch does what?
Remains the same
Strings in a piano a different or same lengths?
Different
A tall sound wave is a ________ sound.
Louder
On an Oscilloscope you see __________.
Sound waves
