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Parts of the ear
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sound
100
pinna or auricle
What is the outer ear?
100
means hammer
What is the malleus?
100
three small loops above the cochea, filled with liquid, end message to the brain
What are semicircular canals?
100
sound waves that vibrate the medium in the same direction that the energy moves
What are longitudinal waves?
100
how dense the air is in the compressions or rarefactions compared to normal air
What is amplitude?
200
fights off infections
What is earwax?
200
means anvil
What is the incus?
200
a series of rarefactions and compressions traveling through a substance
What is a sound wave?
200
the transfer of energy when a wave disappears into a surface
What is absorption?
200
finding an object by using reflected sound
What is echolocation?
300
three sections of the ear
What are outer, inner and middle ear?
300
smallest bone in your body and means stirrup
What is the stapes?
300
regions of air that have many particles
What are compressions?
300
a region that contains few or no particles
What is a vacuum?
300
sound navigation and ranging which uses reflection
What is sonar?
400
separates the outer ear from the middle ear
What is the eardrum?
400
makes sure pressure is the same on both sides of the eardrum
What is the eustachian tube?
400
regions of air that have few particles
What are rarefactions?
400
how high or low a sound is and related to frequency
What is pitch?
400
to make a sound higher in pitch, you need to __________the number of times it vibrates per second
What is increase?
500
osicles
What are the three tiny most delicate bones in your body?
500
small curled tube in the inner ear filled with fluid
What is the cochlea?
500
a substance through which the wave travels is called
What is the medium?
500
the number of times an object vibrates per second
What is frequency?
500
space has few particles, so there is no _____________for sound to travel through.
What is medium?