The Ear
This part of the ear vibrates when it is hit by a sound wave
What is the eardrum?
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?
Ears that don't work well act like this barrier to entering a room
What is a closed door?
The number of ways you can protect your ears
What is four?
The part of the ear shaped like a common garden pest
What is the cochlea?
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?
What is a firefighter?
This kind of movement gets your places and helps protect your ears
What is walking away?
There are 20,000 to 30,000 of these 'little hairs' in the cochlea
What are the stereocilia?
Not for tic-tac-toe, these two 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 eardrum
What is a Q-tip?
Say "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?
This grass isn't always greener if you don't wear ear protection for this summer chore
What is mowing the lawn?
This 'gray matter' is the most important body part for hearing
What is the brain?
This yellow fruit shape shows where sounds are on the audiogram
What is the speech banana?
This Lady Gaga song describes one kind of 'mystery' hearing loss
What is "Born That Way"?
You might have trouble with this form of communication if you are Deaf or hard of hearing
What is talking?
The hearing protection strategy goes from high to low
What is turning down the volume?
Latin names for the hammer, anvil and stirrup (the 3 bones in the ear)
What are the malleus, incus and stapes?
This level of hearing loss means sounds have to be 90 dB or louder to be heard
What is profound?
NIHL is the acronym for this cause of permanent hearing loss
What is noise-induced hearing loss?
Frustrated, angry, sad, anxious or worried are all these
What are feelings you might have with a hearing loss?
The lowest volume of sound that can start to damage your ears.
What is 85 dB?