Across
- 4. the medium that sound waves travel through the most slowly
- 8. when sound waves are amplified as through a megaphone or yelling through cupped hands
- 9. when sound bounces off an object; an echo
- 10. the medium that sound waves travel through the best
- 11. this measure of a sound wave is related to its
- 12. unit of measure of pitch
Down
- 1. waves that don't have up and down crests and troughs, but rather have compressions and rarefactions
- 2. when sound waves are not able to travel through a substance; for example, wearing earplugs to drown out a loud noise
- 3. the unit of measure of volume
- 5. when sound is spread or scattered across an area (like the curved ceiling of an auditorium spreads the sound so everyone in the audience can hear)
- 6. the measure of sound is related to its
- 7. sounds waves cannot travel through this at all
