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The Ear Parts and Function
How do we hear?
Waves
Taste and Smell
Miscellanious
100
The receptor organ for sound.
What is the ear?
100
Captures the sound waves.
What is the pinna?
100
Distance between the equilibrium point and the crest of a wave.
What is the amplitude?
100
Taste receptors.
What is a taste bud?
100
The hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup.
What are the ossicles?
200
The three (3) main parts of the ear.
What is the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear?
200
Vibrates when stimulated by sound waves.
What is the eardrum?
200
Carries energy from one point to another without transporting any matter along with it.
What is a wave?
200
Smell is responsible for ____ % of taste.
What is 80 %?
200
Receptor organ for tactile, heat, and pain.
What is the skin?
300
Sends information to the auditory part of the brain.
What is the auditory nerve?
300
Where the vibrations are transmitted to a liquid.
What is the cochlea?
300
A mechanical longitudinal wave that is detected by the ear.
What are sound waves?
300
Location where air enters the nose.
What is the nasal cavity?
300
Wave that requires a material medium in order to propagate.
What is a mechanical wave?
400
Balances the pressure on either side of the ear drum so that it can vibrate properly.
What is the Eustachian tube?
400
Window to the cochlea that is pushed by the stirrup.
What is the vestibule?
400
Produce a deformation that is perpendicular to the direction in which they propagate.
What is a transverse wave?
400
A molecule that has flavour.
What is sapid?
400
Areas of the body where most touch receptors are located.
What are the fingers and the face?
500
Three (3) fluid-filled rings each oriented in a different way with receptors that detect movement.
What are the semi-circular canals?
500
Turn vibrations into nerve impulses.
What are the ciliary nerve cells?
500
Scale used to quantify the power of sound.
What is the Decibel scale?
500
The five (5) main flavours:
What is sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami?
500
Layer of the skin where the touch receptors are located.
What is the dermis?