A sensor includes a substrate, a medium on which a surface acoustic wave
propagates, a reference electrode, an antenna, a transducer that includes
a first electrode connected to the antenna and a second electrode
connected to the reference electrode and arranged opposite to the first
electrode, and that has a function of converting a signal received by the
antenna into a surface acoustic wave propagating on the medium, and a
function of converting a surface acoustic wave propagating on the medium
and reaching the transducer into a signal and outputting the signal to
the antenna, a reflector that throws back a surface acoustic wave
generated by the transducer, propagating on the medium, and reaching the
reflector, toward the transducer, and an impedance converter connected to
the reference electrode, impedance of which changes in response to a
change in circumstances surrounding the sensor.