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Sound questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is all sound? | vibrations |
| How do you lower the pitch on a guitar string? | loosen it |
| How do you make the pitch higher on a rubber band? | tighten it |
| How would you make a drum's pitch lower? | loosen the skin |
| How would you make a drum's pitch higher? | tighten the skin |
| To what does pitch refer? | how high or low a sound is |
| To what does volume refer? | how loud or soft a sound is |
| How would you control volume on a radio? | turn the volume knob down or up |
| Through what does all sound travel? | solids, liquids and gas |
| One tuning fork is long and one is shorter. They are the same thickness. Which one will have the higher pitch? | the longer tuning fork |
| When hanging a ruler over the edge of a table, how do you control the pitch? | by hanging it a little or a lot |
| There are 3 bottles with different amounts of water in them. The bottle with the most water and a little air produces what pitch when you blow across the top of the bottle? | a high pitch |
| If you have 3 bottles filled with different amounts of water, what type of pitch will the bottle filled with the least amount of water make? | a low pitch |
| What do we call movements that move back and forth very quickly? | vibrations |
| Through which matter does sound travel best? | solids |
| Do longer materials vibrate slower or faster? | slower |
| Do shorter materials vibrate slower or faster? | faster |
| If a material vibrates fast, will it produce a high pitch or low pitch sound? | high pitch sound |
| If a material vibrates slowly, will it produce a high pitch or a low pitch sound? | low pitch sound |
| Guitar strings vary in thickness. How is the pitch affected by the thinness of the string? | the thinner the string, the higher the pitch |
| Guitar strings vary in thickness. How is the pitch affected by the thickness of the string? | the thicker the string, the lower the pitch |
| How is the pitch affected when you shorten the guitar string? | the pitch gets higher |
| How is the pitch affected when you lengthen the guitar string? | the pitch gets lower |
| What happens to volume when you pluck a string or rubber band gently? | the sound will be soft |
| What happens to volume when you pluch a string or rubber band with a lot of energy? | the sound will be loud |
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PatriciaG
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