Exam 1 Part 2

Question 1

Lower air pressure = ______

Answer 1

Inhalation

Question 2

Higher air pressure = ______

Answer 2

Exhalation

Question 3

Diaphragm contracts and lowers, ribcage slightly raises and expands, brainstem helps with this process

Answer 3

Quiet inspiration

Question 4

What happens to the volume inside of the thoracic cavity during quiet inspiration?

Answer 4

Increases

Question 5

Process that includes the alveolar sacs relax, thoracic cavity relaxes, air pressure increases, air is forced out of the lungs, up the trachea, vocal folds open, out of the nose or mouth

Answer 5

Quiet expiration

Question 6

Contains cartilage, muscles, and membranes that produces voice by air passing between the vocal folds

Answer 6

Larynx

Question 7

Where is the larynx located?

Answer 7

Top of the trachea

Question 8

Largest laryngeal cartilage; the main structure of the larynx that encloses and protects the vocal folds

Answer 8

Thyroid cartilage

Question 9

Referred to as the Adam’s apple

Answer 9

Anterior point/laryngeal prominence

Question 10

Space between vocal folds when abducted

Answer 10

Glottis

Question 11

Look pearly white, point of “V” is anterior

Answer 11

True vocal folds

Question 12

Are the vocal folds abducted or adducted during voicing?

Answer 12

Adducted

Question 13

Vocal folds important for preventing food getting below the true vocal folds

Answer 13

False vocal folds

Question 14

In normal phonation, false folds remain in _____ position

Answer 14

Open

Question 15

What happens during phonation?

Answer 15

Brain tells true vocal folds to adduct, tells us to exhale, air pressure below vocal folds build up, vocal folds blow open with anterior and posterior areas closed