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10 Cards in this Set
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SOUND
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a series of vibrations that you can hear
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COMPRESSION
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the part of a sound wave in which air is pushed together
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SOUND WAVE
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a moving pattern of high and low pressure that you can hear
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AMPLITUDE
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a measure of the strength of a sound wave shown by height on a wave diagram
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WAVELENGTH
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the distance from one compression to the next in a soundwave
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LOUDNESS
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your perception of the amount of sound energy reaching your ear
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PITCH
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a measure of how high or low a sound is
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SPEED OF SOUND
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the speed at which a soundwave travels through a given material
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ECHO
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a sound reflection
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SONIC BOOM
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a shock wave of compressed sound waves produced by an object moving faster than sound
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