Investigation project

 We are going to study the noise we make in Viós Secondary School. Before that, we want you to ask yourself about some issues. Search the information on Internet and answer them.

1. Define:

Noise, Sound, Silence, acustic contamination, Decibel, qualities of the sound.

Does sound have the same qualities than noise?

Is silence important in music? Why?

Who composed a work based on the silence?

 Find this composittion on internet and add it to your project.

Why do you think he made this composition?

2. How is it possible to measure the noise?

3. How does a chronometer work? 

4. What are the levels of noise? Make a list with different examples and decibels for every example.

5. How many decibels does a vacuum cleaner  have?

6. How many decibels does a plane deliver?

7. What is the level of noise than the human ear can stand to?

8. What are the main noise sources which produce acoustic contamination?

9. What countries in the world are the less enviromentally friendly in relation with noise?

10. What are the efects of the noise in our health?

11. What is a map of noise? Add an example.

12. How can we study the level of noise in our school? Make a chard to include all data about the noise in the school.

13. Apart from acoustic contamination, what other types of contamination do you know?