Sound Review Game

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Sound Review Game
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• How could you produce a lower sound on a guitar?

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• Pluck a thick string

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• What might cause the 1st string on a guitar to
  play a higher note than the 2nd string?

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• The 1st string is tighter and thinner than the
  2nd string.

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• If you strike this instrument to hear it, what
  type of instrument is it?

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• percussion

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• If you strike a bottle half filled with water,
  what vibrates?

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• The water vibrates

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• Which doesnt belong
• Decibel
• Frequency
• Vibrations/sound
• Hertz

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• decibel

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• Which doesnt belong
• Longitudinal
• Transverse
• Sound
• Compression

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• transverse

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• Which doesnt belong
• Cochlea
• Larynx
• Vocal cords
• Voice box

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• Cochlea

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• Which doesnt belong
• Tuning fork
• Pure sound
• One frequency
• Two frequencies

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• Two frequencies

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• Name the part of the ear that
• Helps you keep your balance

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• Semicircular canals

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• Name the part of the ear that
• Gathers the sound wave

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• Outer ear

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• Name the part of the ear that
• Changes sound to nerve signals

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• cochlea

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• Name the part of the ear that
• Takes the message to the brain

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• Auditory nerve

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• Name the part of the ear that
• The thin tissue that vibrates

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• eardrum

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• Name the part of the ear that
• Three smallest bones of the body

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• Hammer, anvil stirrup

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• What is needed to make objects vibrate?

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• Energy

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• If music is at 160 decibels, is that okay for
  your hearing?

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• NO!!

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• Sounds are made when objects do this.

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• vibrate

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• Will the pitch be high or low if the string on an
  instrument is short?

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• The pitch will be high.

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• A wind instrument makes sound by vibrating this.

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• The air

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• Why would a tuba have a lower pitch than a
  trumpet?

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• It has a longer and larger air column

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• What states of matter can sounds travel through?

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• Solids, liquids gases

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• What kind of pitch will low frequencies have?

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• A low pitch

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• What is the loudness of sound measured in?

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• Decibel

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• One tuning fork is marked 512 Hz. The other is
  unmarked but sounds higher. The forks are struck
  at the same time and 12 beats are heard.
• What is the frequency of the unmarked tuning fork?

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• 524 Hz

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• You see lightning. Twelve seconds later you hear
  thunder.
• Knowing that sound travels 1 kilometer in 3
  seconds, how far away is the storm?

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• 4 kilometers away

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• Sound travels through water at 1,500 m/second.
• A ship sends a sound signal to the bottom of the
  ocean. It comes back 4 seconds later.
• How many seconds does it take to get down to the
  bottom?
• How deep is the ocean at this point?

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• 2 seconds down
• 3000 m deep

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Other Things to Know

• Know your facts about transverse
  Longitudinal/compression waves

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Other Things to Know

• Know how musical instruments work

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Other Things to Know

• Know about pitch, frequency, vibrations per
  second, etc.