Sound Travels to Your Ear
Science: Year 3 & 4 National Curriculum, topic 9.1.2
Sounds Travel
When a sound is made by hitting a drum, the vibrations created need to travel to your ear so you can hear it.
How vibrations travel
- Solids, liquids and gases have particles that can vibrate.
- Vibrations that make sounds can be passed through solids, liquids and gases.
- Vibrations travel through solids, liquids and gases and into our ears.
Vibrations in our ears
- Vibrations that enter our ears vibrate our eardrum.
- The eardrum is a part of our ear.
- Our brain then converts these vibrations into sounds we can hear.
Blocking sounds
- If we wanted to hear less sound, we could use a barrier to reduce the vibrations reaching our eardrum.
- E.g. your hands can reduce the vibrations passing to our eardrums.
- E.g. ear protectors can be used to reduce the vibrations passing to our eardrums.
Test yourself on Sound Travels to Your Ear
What happens to the vibrations creating sound when they enter our ears?