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What three bones are in the ear? Answer

What three bones are in the ear? Answer. Hammer, anvil and stirrup. What is special about the three bones in the ear? Answer. They are the smallest bones in the body. What is the outer ear called? Answer. The Pinna. Can people with large ears hear better than people with small ears? Answer.

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What three bones are in the ear? Answer

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  1. What three bones are in the ear?Answer

  2. Hammer, anvil and stirrup

  3. What is special about the three bones in the ear?Answer

  4. They are the smallest bones in the body.

  5. What is the outer ear called?Answer

  6. The Pinna

  7. Can people with large ears hear better than people with small ears?Answer

  8. No, The part of your ear that is important for hearing is inside your ear, where you can't see it. The size of the outside part of your ear makes no difference in how well you hear.

  9. What does the ear drum do?Answer

  10. Sounds make our ear drums vibrate which sends a message to the brain. Is this what an ear drum looks like?

  11. What causes sound?Answer

  12. Sound is caused by vibrations

  13. What is sound used for?Answer

  14. We use sound to find out what is going on around us. Sound is used to communicate or for pleasure.

  15. In which direction do sound waves travel?Answer

  16. Sound waves travel away from the source in all directions. It travels in a circular shape or 360 degrees.

  17. Can sound waves travel through things?Answer

  18. Yes sound waves must have a medium to travel through. These can be solids, such as wood, steel or a wall; liquids such as water, juice or pop; or a gas such as air.

  19. What is sound a form of?Answer

  20. Sound is a form of energy and can make things move.

  21. Can sound waves travel in space? Why or why not?Answer

  22. Sound waves can not travel through space because sound waves need something to travel through such as air, water, wood or steel. Space is a vacuum with nothing to travel through.

  23. What happens when the sound waves move further and further apart?Answer

  24. The sound gets harder and harder to hear when the sound waves moves further apart.

  25. What did we learn from the plastic cup and string telephone experiment?Answer

  26. That sounds move through vibrations. We were able to hear what was said into the cup because the sound vibrated up the string from one cup to the other.

  27. What did we learn from the paper clip experiment?Answer

  28. That sounds move out from the source and travels in all directions (360 degrees) and the sound gets harder to hear the further away you are from the source.We also learned that some people hear better than others.

  29. What did we learn from the comb experiment?Answer

  30. We learned that sound can travel through liquids such as water, solids such as wood, and gas such as air.

  31. What did we learn from the slinky experiment?Answer

  32. That high pitched sounds have short wave lengths that are close together (they are higher frequency), and sounds with a low pitch have larger waves lengths spaced further apart (they are low frequency).

  33. What part of the ear is this?Answer

  34. The outer ear or the pinnaThe part of the ear you can see. It collects sounds and funnels them into the ear

  35. What part of the ear is this?Answer

  36. The ear canalSounds travel through the ear canal to get from the outer ear to the middle ear.

  37. What part of the ear is this?Answer

  38. The Hammer, the Anvil and the Stirrup. Stirrup Anvil Hammer The three small bones in the inner ear lead the sound striking the eardrum, further into the inner ear

  39. What Part of the ear is this?Answer

  40. The semicircular canals Three half-circular, interconnected tubes located inside each ear. Each canal is filled with a fluid and contains a motion sensor with little hairs (cilia).This part of the ear regulates balance.

  41. What Part of the ear is this?Answer

  42. Cochlea The cochlea turns sound vibrations into electrical signals ... these travel along nerves to the brain.

  43. What are vocal chords?Answer

  44. Vocal chords are two leathery flaps inside a person’s throat. Normally vocal chords are separated by a space so air can pass between them and you can breathe. When you use your voice, your vocal chords move close together.

  45. Fill in the blanks._________ waves are caught by your fleshy ________ ear. Answer

  46. sound waves are caught by your fleshy outer ear.

  47. Fill in the blanks.Sound waves travel into your ear__________ and make the __________ vibrate. Answer

  48. Sound waves travel into your ear canal and make the eardrum vibrate.

  49. Fill in the blanks. Your eardrum makes the tiny bones in your __________ ear vibrate. Answer

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