Ears Flashcards
What is the act of hearing?
Audition
What do we call the number of wave lengths that pass a point?
Frequency
What do you call a tone’s highness and lowness which also depends on the frequency?
Pitch
Which part of the ear picks up vibration from the ear drum?
Middle ear
What is the smallest bone in the body?
Stirrup
What bones is the middle ear made up of?
Hammer, Anvil, and Stirrup
The middle ear continues the vibrations and sends them where?
The Cochlea
Vibrations carried through where trigger nerve impulses?
Cochlea
Which part of the ear is shaped like a snail?
Cochlea
Which part of the ear has a membrane called the oval window which is considered the inner ear?
Cochlea
What happens inside the Cochlea?
Tiny hairs on the inside are triggered which activates neural messages to be sent to the auditory nerve in the brain