Every sound is produced by a vibration, vibration is the back and forth movement of an

object.As you speak vibrations are produced by your vocal chords in your throat.
You can only hear when the sound vibrations reach your ears.Sound energy travels in the
form of sound waves, transverse waves and longitudinal waves. In transverse waves the
particles vibrate at a right angle to the direction of the wave. Sound waves are longitudinal
waves. Sound travels the quickest through a solid as all the particles are close together. Due
to the particles being a little bit further away in a liquid sound travels a little bit slower. Gas
particles are farther apart than liquid and solid which means it takes sound longer to travel
through gas than any other. The vibration of particles produces waves. Wavelength is the
distance between two consecutive compressions or rare fractions. The number of waves
passing through a point in a second is called frequency. Frequency is measured in Hertz.
Sound travels in all directions. Sound gets reflected, it bounces back on hitting a solid
surface. Bouncing back of a sound is called an echo. Bouncing back of sound is purposefully
used in detecting the depth of sea.