Quiz today huhu

Question 1

Hearing is affected by three physical properties

Answer 1

Height/Amplitude
Frequency
Purity

Question 2

“Loudness”
the taller the wave, the louder the sound

Answer 2

Height / Amplitude

Question 3

YOUR EARDRUM WOULD BURST
.

Answer 3

160 dB

Question 4

how many waves occur in a given period of time.

Answer 4

frequency

Question 5

how many times the wave cycle per second.

Answer 5

Hertz (Hz)

Question 6

complexity of the wave.
unique tonal quality = “timbre,” how many
frquencies are present in the wave.

Answer 6

pURITY

Question 7

Collect and funnel sounds into the passage called auditory canal.

Answer 7

pINNAE

Question 8

once inside the canal, sound vibrations travel to the

Answer 8

eardrum

Question 9

bones of the middle ear: they vibrate and amplify the waves so that they have more than 20 times the energy they had entering the ear.

Answer 9

Hammer, anvil and stirrup

Question 10

The hammer hits the ——-, and the ——— moves the stirrup.

Answer 10

Anvil

Question 11

The vibration of the ———— in turn sets into motion a series of important changes in the ear.

Answer 11

stirrup

Question 12

play a key role in maintaining a sense of balance

Answer 12

semicircular canals

Question 13

The vibration in the ——— send movement through the fluid-filled cavity of the cochlea.

Answer 13

oval window

Question 14

A bony tube, curled like a snail’s shell and filled with fluid.

Answer 14

Cochlea

Question 15

runs through cochlea

Answer 15

basilar membrane

Question 16

The ———– synapse with the auditory neurons that transmit the sound impulses to the thalamus in the brain.

Answer 16

hair cells

Question 17

The hair cells synapse with the ———– that transmit the sound impulses to the thalamus in the brain.

Answer 17

Auditory neurons

Question 18

The hair cells synapse with the auditory neurons that transmit the sound impulses to the ———— in the brain.

Answer 18

thalamus

Question 19

The hair cells synapse with the auditory neurons that transmit the sound impulses to the thalamus in the brain.

From there, the neural impulses are relayed to the ———- and the ———-, home of the auditory cortex

Answer 19

brain stem, temporal lobes

Question 20

The auditory pathways go from the ——- to the ———-in the brain stem and from there to the medial (middle) geniculate nucleus (MGN) of the thalamus.

Answer 20

cochlea, inferior colliculus