2006-08-30 12:56:47 · 8 answers · asked by johanng. 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Water because water is denser than land (air) and without the absorbatiton of the earth.trees etc::This is how many of the sea creachers communicate is a natural sonar with one another--- What a world!!! Accordingly to some genuis it happen by accident and evolved into what we see today--Only thing we haven't see it all and they have already concluded the source and beginning of it all what a crock of feces !!!
2006-08-30 13:04:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Underwater. Some have correctly replied that water's higher density allows it to carry sound further. There's another reason too.There's a narrow layer of the ocean called the SOFAR channel. Any sound entering this thin layer of water will be confined there. The temperature and density variation with depth keep it in the SOFAR channel by total internal reflection, a two-dimensional analogy to light in a one-dimensional fibre optic cable. So you can easily transmit sound more than 100 km.
2006-08-30 13:53:54 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, yes, underwater. Like they said, water is more dense than air. Think about when swimming underwater in a pool. Sounds like cracking knuckles carry through much greater distance, than if you were above water.
Also, the speed of sound in water is higher. The colder air is, the more dense it is, so sound travels faster. It travels faster at sea level than at high altitude, for the same reason.
And in metals, even faster still.
2006-08-30 13:05:04 · answer #3 · answered by Ren Hoek 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would think that it would travel better underwater.
remember when you would throw things into the pool to go and dive for it as a kid, and you would hear it hit the bottom while you were underwater still at the other end of the pool, but it would sound like it was right next to you?
that's what i think...
2006-08-30 13:02:28 · answer #4 · answered by Jade Poe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds travels faster underwater as there is less resistance for it to travel through... as aooposed to when it travels through air which is higher resistance and therefore the sound doesn't travel as far
Apprently whales (large marine mammals) can communicate over distances of 10 miles or more !
2006-08-30 13:00:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound transmits better through denser substances and water is much dencer than air so I would have to say underwater.
2006-08-30 13:14:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Underwater, higher density
2006-08-30 12:58:08 · answer #7 · answered by jxt299 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Underwater......water carries sound better than air because it's denser. Sound waves do not dispurse in water as easily as in the air.
2006-08-30 12:59:37 · answer #8 · answered by ghosthuntergal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋