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Waves of Sound
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sound | vibrations that you can usually hear with your ears |
| transfer | to move from one place to another |
| echo | a sound that bounces off a surface and travels back to someone's ears |
| vibration | a quick movement back and forth |
| air | the invisible gas that surrounds the Earth |
| eardrum | a part of the ear that vibrates to help us hear sounds |
| vacuum | an empty space without any air |
| pitch | how high or how low a sound is when you hear it |
| sound wave | the way sounds travel in an up-and-down pattern |
| volume | how loud a sound is, measured by the height of a sound wave |
| wavelength | the distance between two points of a wave |