Outer Ear
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
Sound
Ear Fun Facts
100
The outer ear that is made of cartilage.
What is the pinna?
100
Name number 10.
What is the ear drum?
100
This nerve is located in the inner ear.
What is the auditory nerve?
100
Sound travels in..
What are waves?
100
I can be found in the ear and on a house.
What is the oval or round window?
200
This separates the outer ear from the middle ear.
What is the ear drum?
200
When sound waves hit the ear drum it causes it to..
What is vibrate?
200
Name number 6 and 8.
What is the semi-circular canal and cochlea?
200
Sound frequency is measured in..
Hertz (Hz)
200
I am a percussion instrument that can be found in the ear but I do not play a band or go bum ba dum bum.
What is the ear drum?
300
Number 2.
What is the auditory canal?
300
Name numbers 3, 4 and 5.
What is the hammer, anvil and stirrup?
300
Function of the semi-circular canal.
What is to help the body maintain balance?
300
Most healthy humans from teen to early twenties can hear sounds ranging from 20 HZ to ....
What is 20,000 Hz?
300
Bones in the ear! You are kidding me! Ossicles, tools and all! Name us three.
What are the hammer, anvil and stirrup or malleus, stapes and incus?
400
Function of the pinna.
What is funneling sound waves or vibrations into the ear?
400
Scientific name for numbers 3 (hammer), 4 (anvil) and 5 (stirrup).
What is the malleus, stapes and incus?
400
Sound is converted to nerve impulses here. Name the structure that helps detect low and high frequencies.
What is the cochlea and cilia?
400
Explain how the cilia in the cochlea are specialized to hear low and high frequencies.
What is long cilia detecting low frequency/sound and short cilia detecting high frequency/sound?
400
Name after the Panama Canal, not at all. Balancing is my thing! I am half a ring!
What is the semi-circular canal?
500
Talking about peer pressure!! Wait a minute air pressure!! Now I am stressed and drained!
What is the Eustachian tube?