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Q: What do you call a substance that does not readily allow the passage of heat or sound?
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What is the definition of the word insulators?

"A substance that does not readily allow the passage of heat or sound."


Name 2 insulators?

Insulators are materials or substances that do not readily allow the passage of sound or heat. Two examples of insulators are glass and porcelain.


A narrow passage of water?

a sound


What substance can sound waves travel through?

Any substance!


What is the type of motion that causes sound?

Vibration in a substance creates sound.


Does frequncy of sound waves chance as it moves from on e substance to another if so what difference it makes for example from air to vacuum to water to solid materials?

The frequency of sound waves does not change in moving from one substance to another. Remember that vacuum is not a substance, but a lack of substance. Sound can't exist there.


Is auditory passage same as ear passage?

It is the same as the tubelike canal called the ear canal. This is where sound enters the ear.


Why does sound not travel on the moon?

Cause there is no air or substance to carry the sound wave


What can happen to sound energy travelling through the air when it meets a new substance?

the substance can change the sound energy and make you here something else.......


What are the objects called that allow sound to travel through them?

Sound is a pressure wave. Objects that "allow" sound to travel through them could be called wave guides.


What type of sound wave are they that they allow sound to travel?

Sound waves are pressure waves.


How does sound travels something?

Sound travels by making pressure waves. The wave travels through the substance at various speeds, depending how hard the substance is. In vacuum there is no pressure, so sound cannot travel.