Parts of the Ear
The part of your ear that acts as the "catcher" of sound, catching the sound waves from the air?
What is the outer ear?
Pitch is how ______ or _______ a sound is.
What is high or low?
Sound is _________________.
What is vibrations you hear?
A little girl picks up a mallet to hit a xylophone. She wants to create the highest pitch she can make. Which key should she hit?
What is the shortest key?
Sound is funneled through your ear canal. Then it bounces off your _________ causing it to vibrate.
What is the eardrum?
A thick string will produce a ___________.
What is a low pitch?
Sound travels in ___________.
What is sound waves?
Timmy is having guitar problems. All of the notes he plays are a tiny bit lower than he would like. What can Timmy do to make the pitch a little bit higher?
What is tighten the strings?
The snail-shaped part of your inner ear that holds fluid, hearing cells, and nerve endings is called?
What is the cochlea?
A tight string will produce a __________ pitch.
What is high pitch?
Sound travels at different ___________ through solids, liquids, and gases.
What is speeds?
When you talk, the sound of your voice is made from the vibrations of your ___________.
What is vocal chords?
The signal is sent up the brain by traveling along the _____________.
What is the auditory nerve?
A long string will produce a ________ pitch.
What is a low pitch?
Does sound travel faster through solids or liquids?
What is solids?
The Native Americans put their ear to the ground to listen for buffalo because _________.
What is sound travels best through a solid?
The ___________ decodes the signal and tell you what made the sound occur.
What is the brain?
A short string will produce a _______ pitch.
What is a high pitch?
Does sound travel faster through air or solids?
What is solids?
What are the 3 main parts of the ear?
What is the outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear?