The Ear
Life with Hearing Loss
The Audiogram
Causes of Hearing Loss
Protecting Your Ears
100

The number of tiny bones in the ear

What is three?

100

Ears that don't work well act like this barrier to entering a room

What is a closed door?

100

The unit of measurement for the volume of sound

What is decibels?

100

"Ouch, my ear hurts!" is often heard for this cause of hearing loss in kids

What is an ear infection?

100

The number of ways you can protect your ears

What is four?

200

This part of the ear vibrates when it is hit by a sound wave

What is the eardrum?

200

This is not a 'hot' job for people with hearing loss

What is a firefighter?

200

This 'painful' unit of measurement tells us how high or low a sound is

What is hertz?

200

You can't 'dig' this cause of hearing loss

What is a hole in the eardrum?

200

This kind of movement gets you places and helps protect your ears

What is walking away?

300

The part of the ear shaped like a snail

What is the cochlea?

300

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?

300

Not 'tic-tac-toe'! These shapes show right and left ear hearing loss on an audiogram

What are Xs and Os?

300

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?

300

This grass isn't always greener if you don't wear ear protection for this summer chore!

What is mowing the lawn?

400

The number of 'little hairs' in the cochlea

What is 20,000-30,000?

400

You might have trouble with this form of communication if you are hard of hearing or deaf

What is talking?

400

This yellow fruit shape shows where sounds are on the audiogram

What is the speech banana?

400

This Lady Gaga song describes a one kind of mystery cause of hearing loss

What is Born That Way?

400

The hearing protection strategy of goes from high to low 

What is turning down the volume?

500

The most important body part for hearing

What is the brain?

500

Frustrated, angry, sad, anxious and worried are feelings related to this.

What is having a hearing loss?

500

This level of hearing loss means sounds have to be 90 dB or louder before you can hear them

What is profound?

500

NIHL is an acronym for this cause of permanent hearing loss

What is noise-induced hearing loss?

500

The lowest volume of sound that can start to damage your ears

What is 85 decibels?

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