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High frequency sound waves hit objects which absorb or reflect the sound waves and then the waves bounce off the objects that reflect the signal (for example rocks on the ocean floor) and return to a sonar receiver. The difference is visible since there will be patches of unreturned signal in certain ares where the signal was absorbed (for example if the waves hit a whale, the blubber may very effectively absorb the signal leaving a blank patch of sonar screen in the shape of a whale)

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