The Ear
The number of tiny bones in the ear
What is three?
Ears that don't work well act like this barrier to entering a room
What is a closed door?
The unit of measurement for the volume of sound
What is decibels?
"Ouch, my ear hurts!" is often heard for this cause of hearing loss in kids
What is an ear infection?
The number of ways you can protect your ears
What is four?
This part of the ear vibrates when it is hit by a sound wave
What is the eardrum?
This is not a 'hot' job for people with hearing loss
What is a firefighter?
This 'painful' unit of measurement tells us how high or low a sound is
What is hertz?
You can't 'dig' this cause of hearing loss
What is a hole in the eardrum?
This kind of movement gets you places and helps protect your ears
What is walking away?
The part of the ear shaped like a snail
What is the cochlea?
Saying "What?" a lot, turning up the volume, or pretending to hear something when you didn't might be these
What are signs of hearing loss?
Not 'tic-tac-toe'! These shapes show right and left ear hearing loss on an audiogram
What are Xs and Os?
This 'bathroom bad boy' pushes wax against the eardrum, scrapes the ear canal and could poke a hole in the ear drum!
What is a Q-tip?
This grass isn't always greener if you don't wear ear protection for this summer chore!
What is mowing the lawn?
The number of 'little hairs' in the cochlea
What is 20,000-30,000?
You might have trouble with this form of communication if you are hard of hearing or deaf
What is talking?
This yellow fruit shape shows where sounds are on the audiogram
What is the speech banana?
This Lady Gaga song describes a one kind of mystery cause of hearing loss
What is Born That Way?
The hearing protection strategy of goes from high to low
What is turning down the volume?
The most important body part for hearing
What is the brain?
Frustrated, angry, sad, anxious and worried are feelings related to this.
What is having a hearing loss?
This level of hearing loss means sounds have to be 90 dB or louder before you can hear them
What is profound?
NIHL is an acronym for this cause of permanent hearing loss
What is noise-induced hearing loss?
The lowest volume of sound that can start to damage your ears
What is 85 decibels?