Moving Up with Science: Sound looks at how sound moves; how fast sound travels; and what happens when sound waves reach our ears. Discover how sounds can be high, low, loud or quiet.

Find out all about the science in the world around us with Moving Up with Science. Written to support the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2, each title explores key scientific topics through a combination of concise information and fun experiments. Suitable for readers aged 7 and up.

Written by an award-winning science author, Peter Riley.

This book is part of a book series called Moving Up With Science .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .

Peter D. Riley is a full-time author and has written over 200 books for primary and secondary Science.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: What's that sound?
• 2: How is sound made?
• 3: Seeing sounds
• 4: Distant sounds
• 5: Loud and quiet
• 6: Pitch
• 7: Elastic bands and strings
• 8: Wind instruments
• 9: Speed of sound
• 10: Sounds in solids and liquids
• 11: Sound insulation
• 12: Ears
• 13: Glossary
• 14: Answers
• 15: Index