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Mini-Quiz: Hearing Direction and Distance

by Ron Kurtus (updated 18 May 2023)

Take this Mini-Quiz to check your understanding of the lesson material.

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1. How do cats hear behind them?

They can only hear to the front

They turn around

They cock their ears backwards

2. How can you tell a sound is from far away?

It is muffled and not very loud

You can barely hear its echo

It goes in one ear and out the other

3. How do bats detect objects to eat?

By processing reflected sounds

By their strong sense of smell

By hearing moths chirp to each other

If you got all three correct, you are on your way to becoming a Champion in Understanding Senses. If you had problems, you had better look over the material again.

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Be careful, thoughtful and listen

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Resources and references

Ron Kurtus' Credentials

Web sites

The Direction of Sound - Explanation from Hear-It, a site dedicated to preventing hearing loss

Hearing and Perception - From USCS Electronic Music Studios

Senses Resources

Books

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Top-rated books on Hearing

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Senses topics

Mini-Quiz: Hearing Direction and Distance with Sound

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Senses topics

Basics of senses

• Sensing the World Around You
• Limits of Your Senses
• When You Are Deprived of Senses
• Improving Your Senses
• Devices to Extend Your Senses

Standard five senses

Sight

• Sensing Light Images
• Sensing Colors (coming soon)
• Sensing Brightness (coming soon)
• Navigating in a Room when Blind
• Navigation for a Blind Dog

Hearing

• Hearing or Sensing Sound
• Sensing Pitch
• Sensing Loudness
• Sensing Direction and Distance

Smell

• Sensing Smells

Taste

• Sensing Tastes (coming soon)

Touch

• Sensing Pressure (coming soon)
• Sensing Temperature (coming soon)

Combinations

• Synesthesia - Hearing Colors
• Senses Involved in Flavor

Added senses

Time

• Sensing Time
• Sensing in Slow Motion

6th Sense

• Your 6th Sense and Beyond
• Scientific Possibility of 6th Sense
• Checking Your 6th Sense
• 6th Sense Experiments

Electrical fields

• Sensing Another's Aura

Magnetic fields

• (coming soon)

Gravity field

• (coming soon)

Other possible senses

• Sensing Spirits
• Sensing Fear or Danger

Also see

• Senses Survey Results
• Physical Science
• Chemistry
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