Chapter 10 and 11 vocab words
Across
- 3. A hollow chamber filled with air that amplifies sound when the air inside of it vibrates
- 6. A spiral-shaped structure in the inner ear filled with liquid and tiny hair cells that converts sound waves into nerve impulses
- 8. A tough membrane approximately 0.1 mm thick that transmits sound from the outer ear to the middle ear
- 9. A unit of sound intensity used to describe the wide range of intensities the human ear can hear
Down
- 1. The process of adding a signal wave to a carrier wave to transmit information
- 2. Electromagnetic waves that behave as particles whose energy depends on the frequency of the light
- 3. energy The energy carried by an electromagnetic wave, which causes particles in objects to gain energy and can make materials hot
- 4. A device, such as a cellular telephone, that transmits at one frequency and receives at another
- 5. effect The change in wave frequency due to a wave source moving relative to an observer or an observer moving relative to a wave source
- 7. wave An electromagnetic wave with the specific frequency that a radio or television station is assigned