Structures of the Ear
The function of the Pinna.
What is to collect sound waves and direct them into the inner ear?
Structure responsible for creating snot.
What is the mucus membrane?
Function of the hairs in the nose.
What is to filter dirt particles and bacteria?
This occurs in the cochlea.
What is sound waves are turned into electrical signal?
Compression waves are these.
What are regions where layers of air crowd together and the air pressure is a little above normal?
The name of the three bones in the ear, and their overall name.
What is Hammer, stirrup, anvil or incus, stapes and malleus?
Bonus: What is the ossicles?
Separates the nostrils.
Boogers are formed like this.
The function of the ossicles.
What is to amplify or soften sound vibrations?
Rarefaction waves are these.
What are regions where the layers are father apart than normal and the pressure is less than normal?
The three parts of the ear.
What is middle, outer and inner ear?
Filled with sensory cells sensitive to odours.
What is the olfactory epithelium?
The function of the nose.
What is to detect odours and to help in respiration?
The nerve responsible for sending electrical signals in the brain from the ear.
What is the auditory nerve?
Amplitude is this.
What is the determination of whether a sound is loud or soft?
What is the Eustachian Tube?
The nerve responsible for sending sensory information on scents to the brain.
What is the olfactory nerve?
The loss of smell is called this.
What is anosmia.
After the pinna collect sound waves they go here.
What is the auditory canal or ear canal?
Pitch or frequency is this.
What is the number of vibrations that occur every second?
Connects the nose to the ear.
What is the Eustachian Tube?
The structures responsible for detecting odours (smelling).
What is the olfactory epithelium - olfactory bulb - olfactory nerve - the brain?
When our nose is stuffy this happens to our sense of taste.
What is our sense of taste becomes diminished?
The structure that the ossicles hit to send along the vibrations.
What is the oval window?
The safe range for humans to hear without damage to our ear.
What is between 20 - 90 decibels?