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Hearing & Balance

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A series of sacs and canals in the inner ear's labyrinth responsible for sensing movement and position of the head:

a)

vestibular apparatus

b)

basilar membrane

c)

tympanum meatus

d)

tympanic membrane

2.

The outer ear that you can see on the side of your head:

a)

pinna

b)

eardrum

c)

tympanum

d)

ossicles

3.

The spiral part of the inner ear's labyrinth responsible for sensing and transducing sound waves:

a)

hair cells

b)

ossicle

c)

cochlea

d)

tympanic membrane

4.

Three small bones in the middle ear that amplify the vibrations from the eardrum and apply them to the oval window:

a)

eardrum

b)

auditory ossicles

c)

oval window

d)

pinna

5.

A thin, translucent, cone-shaped piece of connective tissue that divides the external and middle ear, also known as the eardrum:

a)

auditory ossicles

b)

tympanic membrane

c)

oval window

d)

semicircular canals

6.

Three structures that sit in different planes and are used to sense rotations of the head in each plane:

a)

utricle

b)

semicircular canals

c)

saccule

d)

pinna

7.

The hole in the side of your skull through which sound is funneled:

a)

external acoustic meatus

b)

auditory ossicles

c)

incus

d)

semicircular canals

8.

The membrane that marks the boundary between the middle and inner ears, this receives vibrations from the ear bones:

a)

oval window

b)

meatus

c)

auditory ossicles

d)

tympanic membrane

9.

The maze-like inner ear, with a bony shell filled with membranous sacs and ducts:

a)

meatus

b)

labyrinth

c)

malleus

d)

incus

10.

The part of the inner ear that contains the special sensory cells that transduce sound vibrations into neural electrical signals:

a)

organ of corti

b)

basilar membrane

c)

tympanum meatus

d)

tympanic membrane