smell, taste, hearing, balance

Question 1

what nerves contribute to special sense of taste

Answer 1

glossopharyngeal, vagus, facial

Question 2

high frequency sound waves

Answer 2

short wavelength, high pitch

Question 3

lower frequency sounds

Answer 3

long wavelength low pitch

Question 4

3 ear bones in order

Answer 4

malleus, incus and stapes

Question 5

hearing process in ear

Answer 5

1 auricle - funnel waves
2 external acoustic meatus - sound waves travel through
3 tympanic membrane - sound waves cause vibration
4 ear ossicles move (malleus, incus and stapes )
5 stapes moves oval window
6 oval window vibrates and produces waves in vestibule duct travel there to helicotrema to tympanic duct and then those waves vibrate the round window to dissipate noises

Question 6

tympanic nerves from glossopharyngeal send _____ to _____ gland

Answer 6

parasympathetic to parotid gland

Question 7

chordo tympani pass through what in the ear

Answer 7

between the malleus and incus

Question 8

the vestibule is made of what

Answer 8

utricle adn succle – provide info about linear acceleration

Question 9

utricle senses

Answer 9

horizontal acceleration

Question 10

saccule senese

Answer 10

veterical accelration

Question 11

semicircular canals sense

Answer 11

rotational or angular accelration

Question 12

in the utericle and saccule (vestibule) the sterocilia do what

Answer 12

embeed to membrane and increase its mass (membrane moves, stereocilia move)

Question 13

in hair cells what causes depolarization

Answer 13

depolarization = bending to tallest cells=open ion channels

Question 14

hyperpolarization of hair cells

Answer 14

bends away from tallest, closin gion channels