Ear Parts
Sound Terms
Ear Bones
How Sound Travels
Random Facts
100

Scientists call this the pinna

What is the outer ear or ear lobe?

100

The number of waves that happen in a set time is called

What is Frequency?
100

True or False:

There are three bones in the human ear.

True.  

100

When something moves back and forth very fast

What is Vibration?

100
Bats use this to find food. 

What is echolocation? 

200

This is where earwax is made

What is the ear canal or auditory canal? 

200

The greater the amplitude, the  ________ the sound.

What is louder?

200

Name the 3 bones in the human ear. 

Malleus (Hammer)

Incus (Anvil)

Stapes (Stirrup)

200

This is what is it called when sound travels.

What is a sound wave?

200

Birds have a syrinx which allows them to be able to __________.

What is make more than one sound at a time? 

300

This part divides the outer ear from the inner ear.

What is the ear drum? 

300

________ has to do with how high or low a sound is.

What is Pitch?

300

The 3 bones are also known as the _________.

What are ossicles? 

300
A sound wave travels fastest through this. 

(Solid, liquid, or gas?)

What is solid?

300

The rattlesnake rattle moves in what way to make its sound? 

What is in a wave? 

400

This is the Latin term for snail. 

What is the Cochlea?

400
Humans make sounds using their _________.

What the voice box or larynx?

400

This is the smallest bone in the human body. 

What is the Stapes or Stirrup? 

400

When sound waves bounce off of an object and travel back to it's starting place.

What is an echo?

400

True or False 

All cats can purr.

False.  Only small cats can purr. 

500

This takes the electrical impulses to the brain. 

What is the auditory nerve? 

500

Frequency is measured in_______.

What is hertz?

500

The Stapes is connected to what? (2 parts)

What is the Incus (anvil) and the Cochlea?

500

True or False

Sound Travels differently through different types of matter.

True

500

Name 3 ways sound can be used. 

What are communication, danger, friends, information about the environment, to find things, music (There are more!)
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