| A | B |
| scale | has eight notes |
| quality | describes the difference between two sounds having the same pitch |
| reverberation | effect produced by many reflections of sounds |
| resonance | produced when an instrument vibrates |
| acoustics | the study of sound |
| interference | ability of two or more waves to combine to form a new wave |
| beats | variations of sound intensity |
| fundamental | tone produced by one vibration of a string |
| music | sounds that follow a regular pattern |
| octave | frequency range of the musical scale |
| overtones | produced by the vibrations that are multiples of the fundamental frequency |
| noise | has no set pattern or definite pitch |
| constructive | type of interference that occurs when two wave crests arrive together |
| destructive | type of interference that results in two waves canceling each other |