Hearing
The part of the ear catches sound waves and passes them deeper into the inner ear.
What is the pinna?
This layer of the inner ear is responsible for balance.
What is vestibular apparatus?
These are the three major area of the ear.
What is the external, middle, and inner ear?
This part of the ear that vibrates when hit by sound waves.
What is the ear drum?
Motion is detected by using a combination of these two things in the vestibular appparatus.
What is fluid and sensory hair cells?
This section of the ear is the largest area.
What is the external or outer ear.
These two part of the ear are only involved in hearing.
What are the external and middle ear?
The three semicircular canals sit in three different anatomical planes.
What are the frontal, sagittal, and transverse planes?
This canal transmits sound waves to the middle and inner ear.
What is the auditory canal?
These three bones in the middle amplify sound waves for the inner ear.
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes or hammer, anvil, and stirrup.
The three canals empty into sac-like structures
What are the utricle and saccule?
The malleus, incus, and stapes bones hit a certain area to conduct the vibrations to into the inner ear.
What is the oval window?
The cochlea has three canals which all have names.
What are the scala vestibuli, scala media, and scala tympani.
This receptor responds to angular or rotatory movements of the head rather than to straight-line movements.
What is the dynamic equilibrium
The inner ear has two layers, one for transmitting sound vibrations into electrical signals, and the other for your equilibrium.
What are the boney labyrinth and membranous labyrinth?