Special Senses: The Ears - Hearing & Balance

Your ear drum is also known as the:

• Tympanic Membrane
• Tempanic Membrane
• Timpanic Membrane
• Tompanic Membrane

The main inner ear structure that enables one to hear is called the: 

• Cochlea
• Pinna
• Eustachian Tube
• Auricle

The ear has 2 main functions.  They are hearing and: 

• Balance
• Draining excess fluid
• Managing pressure when in elevated areas
• Creating cerumen

The malleus, incus, and stapes are collectively called the

• maculae

• vestibulocochlear nerves

• semicircular canals

• auditory ossicles

The ear only controls the sense of hearing.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The human ear receives sound waves as ________________________ and converts them to signals that are processed by the brain 

• electricity 
• vibrations 
• pitch 
• light 

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

What part is #1?

• Pinna

• Ear Canal

• Ear Drum

• Oval Window

What part is #2?

• Pinna

• External Auditory (Ear) Canal

• Ear Drum

• Oval Window

What part is #3?

• Pinna

• Ear Canal

• Tympanic membrane (Ear Drum)

• Oval Window

Which structure of the ear is prompted by a domino effect of auditory ossicles, which sets the fluids of the inner ear into motion impacting hearing receptors?

• oval window

• auricle

• round window

• malleus