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The Ear

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What happens in the eardrum?

a)

Sound waves vibrate the skin and delivers vibrations

b)

Sound waves make the tiny hairs in your ear move

c)

Carries the message to the brain

2.

What does the Auditory nerve do?

a)

Carries the message to the brain

b)

Carries the message to the Semi-Circular canal

c)

Send the message to the Eustachian tube

3.

What is in the Semi-Circular canals?

a)

Cilia (Tiny Hairs)

b)

Liquid filled tubes

c)

Thin Skin

4.

Name the 3 bones in your ear

a)

Hammer, Stirrup, Anvil

b)

Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup

c)

Rods, Cones, Anvil

5.

Where is the Eardrum located?

a)

The Outer ear

b)

The Inner Ear

c)

The Middle Ear

6.

Where is the Cochlea located

a)

The Inner Ear

b)

The Middle Ear

c)

The Outer Ear

7.

Where is the Auditory Canal located?

a)

The Inner Ear

b)

The Middle Ear

c)

The Outer Ear

8.

Where is the Eustachian Tube connected to?

a)

The back of the head

b)

The back of the nose

c)

The back of the Ear

9.

What does the inner ear consist of?

a)

Cochlea, Auditory Nerve/Tube

b)

Cochlea

c)

Ossicles, Cochlea

d)

Cochlea, Auditory nerve/tube, brain

10.

What is inside of the Cochlea?

a)

Liquid, and tiny hairs

b)

Water, and tiny hairs

c)

Acid, and hairs

d)

Water, and fuzz

11.

What else does our ears do besides help us to hear?

a)

Smell

b)

Balance

c)

Sight

d)

Fight off sickness

12.

What does the auricle do?

a)

Skin made for piercing

b)

Collects sound and funnels it down the ear canal

c)

Helps with balance

d)

Collects dust and dirt

13.

What is the importance of ear wax?

a)

Collects dust and dirt

b)

Help the sound travel

c)

Collect dust, dirt and fight infection

d)

Fight infection

14.

What turns the sound waves into neural signals ?

a)

Cochlea

b)

The movement of the liquid

c)

Movement of the cilia

d)

The Nerve

15.

Name the part of the ear.

a)

Pinna

b)

Hammer

c)

Cochlea

d)

Eardrum

16.

Name the part of the ear shown here.

a)

Pinna

b)

Cochlea

c)

Stirrup

d)

Auditory nerve

17.

What part of the ear is shown here?

a)

Semicircular canals

b)

Vestibular nerve

c)

Anvil

d)

Cochlea

18.

Which of the 3 "ossicle" bones is shown here?

a)

Hammer

b)

Stirrup

c)

Anvil

d)

Cochlea

19.

What is shown here?

a)

Vestibular nerve

b)

Eustachian tube

c)

Cochlear (Auditory) nerve

d)

Auditory canal

20.

Where are the Ossicles located

a)

Outer ear

b)

Middle ear

c)

Inner ear

d)

Pharynx

21.
The inner ear is located within the ________ bone.
a)
PARIETAL
b)
FRONTAL
c)
OCCIPITAL
d)
TEMPORAL
22.

What is Otitis Externa better known as?

a)

Swimmer's Ear

b)

Cauliflower Ear

c)

Middle Ear Infection

d)

Ruptured Ear Drum

23.

The vestibular apparatus also uses a combination of fluid and sensory hair cells to help maintain balance. The movement of the fluid is controlled by _______________.

a)

sound waves

b)

the movement of your head

24.

Responsible for sensing static equilibrium.

a)

semicircular canals

b)

maculae

c)

cochlea

d)

retina

25.

Calcium carbonate crystals that help to make the otolithic membranes of the maculae move.

a)

otoliths

b)

crista

c)

cupula

d)

ossicles

26.

Gel-like part of the crista in the semicircular canals that bends to detect movement.

a)

otolithic membrane

b)

tympanic membrane

c)

cupula

d)

ossicles

27.

This structure of the ear serves as a pressure value to release the energy of "used" vibrations

a)

Oval window

b)

Round window

c)

Cochlea

d)

Tympanic membrane

28.

What produces ear wax?

a)

Auricle

b)

Ceruminous glands

c)

Oval window

d)

Round window

29.

What is the "hallway" between the cochlea and the semicircular canals?

a)

Vestibule

b)

Cochlea

c)

Vestibular nerve

d)

Cochlear nerve

30.

What is the name of the structure that responsible for the transmission of the brain to detect rotation, acceleration, and spinning?

a)

Stapes

b)

Vestibular Nerve

c)

Cochlear nerve

d)

Semicircular canal

31.

The movement of _________________ in the vestibule area sense gravity (tilting of the head backwards or forward) and linear acceleration (movement in a car)

a)

stapes

b)

Otoliths

c)

oval window

d)

vestibule

32.

The pitch of a sound, (how high or low the sound is), is determined by the sound wave's __________.

a)

amplitude

b)

frequency

33.

How loud a sound registers depends on its __________; the difference between the high and low pressure created by the sound wave.

a)

frequency

b)

amplitude

34.

The cochlea is divided into 3 fluid-filled chambers. The middle chamber is lined by the basilar membrane, which is covered by around 20,000 fibers, which get longer as you go down the membrane. Different parts of the membrane vibrate with different pitches of sound. The higher frequency sound waves vibrate the part of the membrane with shorter fibers, and the lower frequency sound waves vibrate the part of the membrane with _________ fibers. This means that all the sounds you hear and how you recognize them is determined by which section of this membrane is vibrating at any given time.

a)

thicker

b)

thinner

c)

longer

d)

shorter

35.

____________ results from a sensory conflict between sensory receptors.

a)

motion sickness

b)

paralysis

c)

deafness

d)

blindness

36.

What cranial nerve innervates the ear?

a)

vestibulocochlear

b)

olefactory

c)

abducens

d)

trigeminal

37.

Which of the following is pictured:

a)

maculae

b)

cochlea

c)

cupula

d)

all of the above