Sound is like when you drop a pebble in a pond, and you see the ripples spreading out. When you talk or clap your hands, it makes invisible ripples in the air called sound waves. These waves travel through the air until they reach our ears. Our ears are like little nets that catch these sound waves, and our brain helps us understand what they mean, like a friend talking or a bird singing.
Think of sound as a bouncing ball. If you bounce a ball in a room, it hits the walls and comes back to you. When you make a sound, it bounces off walls and objects, and that’s why you can hear it even if you’re not looking at the person talking or the thing making the noise.
Sound is also like a magic telephone. When you talk into a cup with a string attached, your voice makes the string vibrate, and the vibrations travel along the string to the other cup. This is how sound travels through different things, like air, water, or even the ground, to reach our ears.