WorksheetsHearing & Balance
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A series of sacs and canals in the inner ear's labyrinth responsible for sensing movement and position of the head:
vestibular apparatus
basilar membrane
tympanum meatus
tympanic membrane
The outer ear that you can see on the side of your head:
pinna
eardrum
tympanum
ossicles
The spiral part of the inner ear's labyrinth responsible for sensing and transducing sound waves:
hair cells
ossicle
cochlea
tympanic membrane
Three small bones in the middle ear that amplify the vibrations from the eardrum and apply them to the oval window:
eardrum
auditory ossicles
oval window
pinna
A thin, translucent, cone-shaped piece of connective tissue that divides the external and middle ear, also known as the eardrum:
auditory ossicles
tympanic membrane
oval window
semicircular canals
Three structures that sit in different planes and are used to sense rotations of the head in each plane:
utricle
semicircular canals
saccule
pinna
The hole in the side of your skull through which sound is funneled:
external acoustic meatus
auditory ossicles
incus
semicircular canals
The membrane that marks the boundary between the middle and inner ears, this receives vibrations from the ear bones:
oval window
meatus
auditory ossicles
tympanic membrane
The maze-like inner ear, with a bony shell filled with membranous sacs and ducts:
meatus
labyrinth
malleus
incus
The part of the inner ear that contains the special sensory cells that transduce sound vibrations into neural electrical signals:
organ of corti
basilar membrane
tympanum meatus
tympanic membrane
