Practice Quiz: The Special Sences Hearing and Balance

Label the parts of the Inner Ear

e

d

c

b

a

Utricle

Horizontal SC

Anterior SC

Saccule

Posterior SC

Label the parts of the Outer and Inner Ear

b

c

d

e

f

g

a

Tympanic Membrane

Pinna

Malleus

Auditory Canal

Stapes

Auditory Tube

Incus

Match the following

• Round Window

• Located between the Stapes and the Inner Ear

• Tympanic Membrane

• Sound Energy Exits the Cochlea here

• Oval Window

• Part of the Inner Ear involved in hearing

• Cochlea

• Transmits and intensifies vibrations in the Middle Ear.

• The Ossicles (Maleus, Incus, Stapes)

• Transmits sound vibrations to the inner ear

Place the path sound vibrations take in the correct order.

• Auditory Canal

• Scala Vestibuli

• Ossicles

• Organ of Corti

• Tympanic membrane

What characteristic of sound is determined WHERE along the organ of corti a sound stimulates hair cells

• Volume

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Vibrato

The structure that connects the middle ear to the nose and throat.

• Auditory Canal (External Acoustic Meatus)

• Auditory (Pharyngotympanic)

  Tube

• Vestibular Nerve

• Cochlear Nerve

The fluid the fills the inner "Membranous Labyrinth" around the organ of corti

• Exolymph

• Perilymph

• Endolymph

• Autolymph

The fluid the fills the Scala of the Osseous labyrinth

• Exolymph

• Perilymph

• Endolymph

• Autolymph

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Outer Ear

,

(b) Middle Ear

,

(c) Inner Ear

• Vestibule

• Semicircular canals

• Malleus

• Tympanic membrane

• Incus

• Tympanic Membrane

• Auditory Canal Auditory Canal

• Cochlea

• Pinna

• Stapes

The part of the inner ear involved in ​ (a)   is called the​ (b)   ​ , while the ​ (c)   and the ​ (d)   between them holds organs involved in ​ (e)   .

• Semicircular Canals
• Cochlea
• Vestibule
• hearing
• balance