Science Common Sense

987 - How does sound travel?

Imagine you're standing by a lake and you throw a stone into the water. The stone creates ripples that travel across the lake, right?

Sound works in a similar way. When something makes a noise, like your voice or a bell ringing, it creates vibrations in the air. These vibrations are like the ripples on the lake. They move through the air, carrying the sound to our ears, where we can hear it.

So, sound travels through the air as vibrations, kind of like how ripples travel through water.