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Thank you Wait here's your shmoop du jour brought two

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you bye snails Yeah this could take a while Okay

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here we go The snail like structure that houses cells

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capable of picking up sound waves is called the what

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And here are answers All right well so we're looking

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for something that looks like a snail and picks up

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sound waves and by picking up we don't mean using

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cheesy one liners picking up means receiving and probably sending

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information from sound waves not just being affected by sound

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waves Now that we have that covered we might as

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well follow along with a sound wave is it enters

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a near we'll call you rattle by bumming a ride

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from him will probably find the answer to our question

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No time sound good so let's see after entering the

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outer ear and heading up the ear canal rattle here

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meets the ear drum or temp tannic membrane of your

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fancy Here he runs into the ear drum causing it

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to vibrate Vibrations don't necessarily pick up sound waves Also

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the ear drum doesn't look very snail like over it's

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not our answer This causes the three small bones in

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the inner ear the rallyists incas and stay peas to

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vibrate These vibrations travel through the membrane covered opening the

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oval window there from the middle ear to the inner

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ear But seeing as none of these bones nor this

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oval window looked like a snail or possess special cells

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from picking up those waves you'll none of them have

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the answer to the question either Once these vibrations have

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traveled along those three bones known collectively as the bosic

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als and passed through the oval window they reached the

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snail life Qalqilya The cock leah is a bunch of

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lines with a basil remembering that contains hair cells That

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work is receptors for hearing The movement of these hair

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cells translates into neural information or is transducer effectively telling

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the brain what we're hearing in this case it's the

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neighbor kid blasting his dubstep but boring him Sorry qalqilya

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is dead Only our answer A fur I turn down 00:02:05.79 --> [endTime] that music

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