Parts of the Ear
This area makes wax to protect anything from going into your ear.
What is the tympanic membrane? What is the ear drum?
These are the 3 kinds of soundwaves that enter our Outer Ear to the Middle Ear to the Inner ear and arrive to our brains.
What are acoustic, mechanical, and electrical soundwaves? What are acoustic, conductive, and sensorineural soundwaves?
This tiny piece of metal goes inside of a hearing aid. A tiny sticker comes on each one. You leave those stickers everywhere except the trashcan. You place the tiny metal piece inside your hearing aid to make it work.
What is a battery? What is a hearing aid battery?
You have 206 of these in your body.
What are bones? What is the Skeletal System?
This teacher is funny but she gives very hard tests that I never study for very well?
Who is my science teacher?
These 3 little friends keep the Middle Ear working.
What are the Malleus, Incus, and Stapes? Or what are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
This graph is what audiologists use to show what your heaving levels look like.
What is an audiogram? What is a hearing test chart?
This equipment connects to a hearing aid, BAHA, cochlear implant. A second part of the equipment hangs on the teacher's shirt or neck. This equipment makes speech sounds louder.
What is an FM system?
This is the strongest wave on the electromagnetic system.
What is Gamma Ray?
We see this when we break apart or refract visible light or white light.
What is a rainbow? What are colors? What are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violent, indigo?
This part of the ear lets out mucus and air to keep the area clean and have the right pressure for the ear drum not to burst!
What is the Eustachian Canal or Tube?
This is what we call hearing loss when it is between -10 to 25 decibels.
What is normal hearing? What is regular hearing?
This equipment can be used with a headband around the skull or it require surgery. This equipment connects to the skull to vibrate the skull bones because the Middle Ear does not work. This helps move sound from the skull to the Inner Ear.
What is a BAHA? What is a bone (conductive) hearing aid?
This layer of Atmosphere means "change" and it is the closest atmospheric layer to our Earth.
What is Troposphere?
These are the most common elements or gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
What are Nitrogen and Oxygen?
This part of the ear can look different on every person but most have a half circle or crescent moon shape. It helps with acoustic soundwaves.
What is the Pinna? What is the Auricle?
This is what we use to measure the loudness of sounds.
What is decibel? or What is dB?
This equipment is worn on the auricle or pinna. A tube connect the equipment to an earmold that fits inside the outer ear. It makes all sounds louder.
What is a hearing aid?
This system is responsible for taking important vitamins, nutrients, and sugars from our food to give us energy and good health.
What is the Digestive System?
The Ionosphere layer of the atmosphere that has lots of electricity and produces these at the North and South Poles of the Earth.
What are the Auroras?
These two parts of the ear are responsible for sending electrical or sensorineural soundwaves from the Middle Ear to the Brain.
What are the cochlea and auditory nerve?
When the cochlea and auditory nerve do not send any electrical or sensorineural soundwaves to the brain at all then you have this kind of hearing loss.
What is Profound hearing loss? What is 91 + decibel hearing loss?
This equipment requires surgery. The doctors put 2 wires in the cochlea to reach the auditory nerve. A magnet is placed on the skull. Later a processor is connected to the magnet to turn on sound.
What is a cochlear implant?
This giant rock in space is coming toward Earth and might hit us in the year 2029.
What is 99942 Apophis? What is an asteroid?
This is the name of the process or steps for learning something new in science that starts with a question and ends with sharing data and having more or new questions.
What is Scientific Inquiry?