Ear
Abiha, Abeer, Anayah
Today we will be discussing
the ear .The ear is a very
important organ that we
use in our daily life, we use
it in many ways to interact
with our surroundings eg:
when listening to others.
Hearing: Balancing:
Hearing is how we precive A feature of the ear that
sound. You hear sound many people don’t know
when sound waves are about is balancing. It
turned into something our contains a structure that
brain can understand. Its detects head movement,
one of the 2 the main as well as gravity. Did you
functions of the ear. The know that you get car
nerve to hear is called the sickness when the
auditory or cochlear nerve. information your eyes and
ear are giving to the brain
aren’t the same?
How this sense works:
The ear’s stimulus is sound and it helps us balance. Sound waves make the eardrum vibrate
as they enter the ear. The vibrations are amplified by tiny bones which are located in the
middle ear and pass through the cochlea inside the inner ear. The cochlea turns the
vibrations into electrical signal using the special hair cells The signals travel to the brain,
which interprets them as sound. For balance, the inner ear’s vestibular system senses head
movements and sends information to the brain to help us stay steady
Outer ear:
The outer ear has 2 parts
The pinna or auricle: This part is usually what we refer to as the ear and it is the part
which sticks out of our head. It helps us gather sound and vibrations so we’re able to
hear sounds.
The ear canal: This is a tube or “pathway” that takes the sound waves further into your
ear
Middle ear:
This part of the ear is mostly filled up with air and contains 3 bones in it. These bones are
called Ossicles together and they help you hear, These bones are called the hammer
(malleus), anvil (incus), and stirrup (stapes). They amplify the sound that enters our ear.
The middle ear helps transfer sounds from air to fluid in the next part the inner ear. The
stirrup is the smallest bone in the body. The Eustachian Tube is located here to its the
pathway between the ear and the throat equalizing air pressue on both sthe ears.
Inner Ear
The inner ear is filled with fluid and has a hearing organ the cochlea.
The cochlea helps takes vibrations to translate them into electrical
signals for the nerve to transport to the brain. It uses little hairs that
vibrate with sound waves into the fluid. Your inner ear also uses its
fluid to help you balance. This part of the ear also contains the
vestibular system which includes the:
semicicular canal: It detects rotational movements of the head
Utricle and Saccule: they detect linear movements and
head movement related to gravity.
Stimuli
The ear collects stimuli by detecting sound waves and sensing motion. The
outer ear is like a funnel guiding sound waves through the ear canal to the ear
drum. The ear drums vibrate in response to these sound waves, initiating the
hearing process. To balence the vestibular system of the inner ear detects
movement and than changes the positon of the head accordingly. It uses tiny
hair cells and a fluid inside special structures in your ear and than sends
signals to the brain.
How it helps us respond to the
world
Hearing helps us communicate, detect dangers, and enjoy our beloved music and other
sounds. It helps us by alerting us of our environment for example by alerting us to things
like honking cars or someone calling us. The balance mechanism in our ears to help us
stay up right, move around safely, and adjust to change positions, like standing up from
our seat or turning our heads.
How to Enhance your Hearing
There are a few different ways to enhance your hearing. Some of
these ways are:
Hearing aids- A hearing aid can amplify sound so that people with
damaged ears can hear it
Cochlear implants- A cochlear implant sends speech and sound directly to
the auditory/cochlear nerve
Nerves
The ear has 2 types of nerves one is for balancing and one is
for sending sound wavs to the brain. The one for balancing is
called the Vestibular and the one for sending sound waves to
the brain is called the Cochlear. These 2 nerves together are
called the Vestibulocochlear nerve.
Frequency
Humans can hear sounds within the frequency range starting from around 20 Hz on
the lower end and 20,000 Hz on the higher end. Some animals, such as dolphins,
can’t hears sounds as low as we can, but can hear ranges above 100,000 Hz. Cats and
dogs can hear much higher pitched frequencies than us. Lets watch this video to see
how well we can hear and up to what frequency!
The ear never stop stops growing although
really slowly it never stops.
Earwax is relatively self cleaning as it naturally
comes outward, carrying things like debris and
dirt with it.
The smallest bones of the whole human body
are located in the ear: Hammer, Anvil and
Stirrup
Everyone has different ear shapes, no 2 peoples
ears are the same shape
Listening to overly loud music can lead to
hearing loss as loud noises can damage your
sensitive hair cells.
You can even hear in you sleep as your ears are
constantly processing sounds but your brain
filters most of these sounds out allowing you to
sleep without interruptions.
Name a way to enhance your hearing?
Name a nerve in your ear
What are the 2 functions of the ear?
What is the smallest bone in your body?
What is the hearing organ called in
your body?
Q/A
How does this sense help us respond to
the enviorment?
What is stimuli for the ear?
Whats the Eustachian Tube?
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References!
https://www.nidcd.nih.gov
