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TED Talk: Science of Sound

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The ability to recognize sounds and identify their location is possible thanks to the ...?

a)

Circulatory system

b)

Auditory System

c)

Internal Combustion System

d)

The Musics

2.

The auditory system is composed of 2 parts. What are they?

a)

The Leg and the Foot

b)

The Hand and the Head

c)

The Ear and the Brain

d)

The Nose and the elbow

3.

What is the ear's task?

a)

To convert sound energy into neural signals

b)

To convert chicken into rice

c)

To convert matter into anti-matter

d)

To covert water to oxygen

4.

What is the Brain's task?

a)

to produce and project the information those signals contain.

b)

to conduct and amplify the information those signals contain.

c)

Ocean Waves.

d)

to receive and process the information those signals contain.

5.

The source of the sound creates something called...?

a)

Vibrato

b)

Vibration

c)

Verbiage

d)

Vegetables

6.

Sound waves travel as waves of pressure through the particles in the air, liquids, or solids.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

WHat is our inner ear called?

a)

The cochlea

b)

The inner ear

c)

The eardrum

d)

The ear

8.

The cochlea is filled with saltwater-like fluids. What in our ear helps the soundwaves through that fluid and helps move the little bones in our middle ear?

a)

The eardrum

b)

The earharp

c)

The earclarinet

d)

The ear

9.

The basilar membrane is a surface that runs the length of the cochlea. It's lined with special hair cells that have components that move with the vibrations of the cochlear fluid and the basilar membrane.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

The what picks up the movement in the cochlea and sends it onward to the brain?

a)

The Basilar Membrane

b)

Sound waves

c)

The Special Hair Cells

d)

The Waves

11.

How does the brain locate where the sound is coming from?

a)

It listens.

b)

It compares the sounds coming from the two ears to locate the source in the space.

c)

It has a location device.

d)

That's not what the brain does.

12.

Can people have or develop hearing loss?

a)

Yes

b)

No

13.

What can kill those special hair cells in your ears preventing those signals from getting to your brain?

a)

Drugs

b)

Soft Noises

c)

Squids

d)

Exposure to loud noises and some drugs.