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"6th Grade - Energy Vocabulary - 04"

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Intensity   The amount of electricity, light, heat, or sound energy per unit area per unit time  
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Decibel   A measurement used to compare the intensity of different sounds. Each increase of 10 decibels is a sound intensity 10 times greater  
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Dispersion   The spreading out of energy as it travels away from the source of the energy. The decrease in intensity as distance from an energy source increases  
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Ear canal   A tube like structure connecting the external ear to the eardrum  
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Eardrum   The membrane separating the outer ear from the inner ear  
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Membrane   A layer of tissue that serves as a covering, connection, or lining  
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Hammer   The first in a series of three small bones in the middle ear  
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Anvil   The second in a series of three small bones in the middle ear  
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Stirrup   The third in a series of three small bones in the middle ear  
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Oval window   An opening between the middle ear and the inner ear  
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Cochlea   A spiral tube that makes up the part of the inner ear responsible for hearing  
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Cilia   Tiny hairs that line the cochlea and help turn vibrations into nerve impulses  
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Auditory nerve   A nerve that connects the inner ear with the brain and transmits sound, in the form of nerve impulses, to the brain  
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Wave   A disturbance that travels through a medium from one place to another  
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Mechanical wave   A transfer of energy through a medium without a transfer of the medium  
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Medium   The material through which a mechanical wave travels  
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Longitudinal (compressional) wave   A wave that causes a medium to vibrate in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels  
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Transverse wave   A wave that causes a medium to vibrate in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the wave travels  
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Amplitude   The height of the crest in a transverse wave; a measure of how compressed the compressions are in a longitudinal wave  
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Crest   The highest point of a transverse wave  
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Trough   The lowest point of a transverse wave  
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Wavelength   The distance between two successive crests or troughs in a transverse wave or between two successive compressions in a longitudinal wave  
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Compression   Region of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium have the highest density  
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Period   The time required to complete one cycle of a wave  
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Frequency   The number of crests or compressions in a wave that pass a point per unit time: for sound waves, measured in hertz (hz)  
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Speed of a wave   The distance a wave travels (crest, trough, crest) in a given period of time. Speed of a wave can be calculated by multiplying wavelength by frequency  
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Reflection   When the medium and energy in a wave is turned back from a hard surface  
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Reflect   To turn back from a hard surface  
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Seismic   Caused by an earthquake or vibrations inside Earth  
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Seismograph   An instrument used to detect and record seismic waves  
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Pitch   How high or low a sound is  
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