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Your lungs have very large surface area. About 100 square meters or 1100 square feet.
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What provides a large surface area for gas exchange?
Your lungs provide a very large surface area for gas exchange.
Name one organ in your body which has a large surface area?
Lungs
Which feature is common to gills lungs and tracheae?
Large surface area
How does your body adapt surface area-to-volume ratios to help exchange gases?
By providing a large area in the lungs.
How does the area of exposed surface affect evaporation?
The larger the exposed surface area - the faster evaporation occurs.
How does surface area to volume ratio affects an organism?
If the surface area of the organism is small, then there is no problem with getting all the oxygen needed. If the surface area of the organism is large, therefore a special respiratory surface is needed. An example is lungs, gills. The ratio of surface area to volume in a small organism is greater than the ratio in a large organism.
What is exposed area of an object called?
Surface Area
What is the exposed area of an object called?
Surface Area
How does your body adopt surface area to volume ratio to help exchange gases-?
The skin surface is not large enough for big creatures such as humans; therefore we have structures in our lungs that greatly increase the surface area.
Definition of surface area?
It is the area of the exposed surface. So if you take a cube, the surface area is the sum of the areas of each of the 6 faces. They are all the same in the case of a cube. In general, add up the surface area of each exposed surface and this is the total surface area.
Why is a large surface area necessary for the alveoli in the lungs?
According to fick's law rate of diffusion =(proportional to)= Surface area x Diffusion gradient Diffusion Pathway thickness So for a sufficient rate of diffusion, Surface area must be large The diffusion pathway is already at it's minimun of 1 cell thick and the gradient is harder to adjust. There are around 600 million alveoli in the lungs that have a cummulitive surface area of around 70m2.
Which is called a large mass of igneous rock in earths crust that if exposed at the surface covers an area of at least 100km?
a batholith
