• Question: how do ears help us to hear

    Asked by 239radg42 to Kate, Pip, Reka on 18 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 18 Nov 2016:

      Our ears contain fine hairs that sense vibrations caused by sound. They encode these vibrations into electrical signals that get transmitted to the brain through the nerves, where the brain decodes them into sounds.

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