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34 Cards in this Set
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How high or low a sound is...
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Pitch
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African thumb instrument...
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Kalimba
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Measurement of sound...
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Decibel
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How loud a sound is...
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Volume
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Something that responds to vibrations from a sound source...
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Sound receiver
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Where a vibration starts, like a tuning fork...
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Sound source
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Shaking, back and forth movement...
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Vibration
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Identifying sounds as different from one another...
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Sound Descrimination
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An object's look, feel, sound, taste and smell...
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Properties
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To make sounds louder...
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Amplify
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A funnel-shaped device that can amplify sounds at a receiver...
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Megaphone
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Flap of flesh and cartilage that directs sound vibrations to the inner ear, where nerves transmit messages to the brain...
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Outer ear
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An instrument for listening to sounds in the body...
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Stethoscope
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Force applied to an object trying to pull it apart...
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Tension
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Muscial instrument made from a set of bars or tubes of different lengths...
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Xylophone
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If an object that vibrates faster will have a higher _____.
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pitch
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If you have a bottle filled with water to near the top, it will have a ______ pitch than with only a little water in it when struck with a pencil.
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lower
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Sound travels faster through ______.
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solids
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A thin string will have a ______ pitch.
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high
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A thicker string will give a ________ pitch.
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lower
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A larger instrument makes a ______ pitch.
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lower
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A smaller instrument makes a _______ pitch.
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higher
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In a flute and saxophone, the sound produced by _______ ____ through them.
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blowing air
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The flute will have a ______ pitch.
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higher
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The saxophone will have a ______ pitch.
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lower
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A whistle and a siren are a sound ______.
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source
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A stethoscope and a dog's ear is a sound _______.
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receiver
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A telephone and a microphone are both a sound _______ and a sound _______.
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source and receiver
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Sound begins with a source that is ________.
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vibrating
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Sounds must travel through a _______ (solid, liquid, or gas) from the source to the receiver.
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medium
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The receiver sends the _______ from the source that translates into ______.
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vibration; sound
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Sounds can warn, be pleasant or unpleasant, be loud or _____, be high ______ or low
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soft; pitched
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If you hit 2 rocks together in the air, in pool of water or if you put on rock on the desk, put your ear to the desk, and hit the rocks together which would have a clearer sound? Remember sound travels best through a solid.
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the rock on the desk...
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How does sound travel from one place to another?
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Vibrating source, travels through solid, liquid or gas, receiver senses the vibration from a source and realizes it is a sound...
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