''five lists of the ear chapter 1''

• Pinnae singular pinna are the ear flaps you can see on the side of your head and they are simply collecting funnels for sounds.
• The three ossicle bones are the malleus hammer the incus anvil and the staples stirrup.
• The oval window is thirty times smaller in the area than the eardrum.
• In the middle tube of the cochlea there is a flap that covers row upon row of thiny hairs this is called the organ of Corti.
• A little way inside your head sounds hit a thin tight wall of skin, which is called eardrum making it vibrate.