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Fish use organs on the sides of their heads called gills. These organs are used to extract oxygen from the water around them, allowing them to breath.
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How do cephalopods obtain oxygen?
by their gills but they're not gills like fishes because they're not noticeable.
Why is a lamp needed for an aquarium with plants and fishes?
The plants can take the light and photosynthesis for the fishes to breathe in instead of only giving the fishes the oxygen during morning and taking in oxygen also.
Amphibians are not completely free to live on dry land because 1. their ancestors were fishes. 2. they obtain oxygen from water through gills. 4. their food organisms live in water. 5. they can escape?
They obtain oxygen from water through gills (during at least part of their life cycle).
How are fishes able to get oxygen from water?
gills
Why do fishes die when they come out of water even though oxygen is present in the atmosphere?
Fishes gills are designed only to extract oxygen when submerged. There is oxygen in water also, but our lungs cannot extract it.
How does your body obtain oxygen?
Our body obtain oxygen to our body by breathing.
Which gas is inhale and exhale by fishes?
carbondioxide and oxygen
Is there oxygen in fishes food that they eat?
If you are wondering whether the reason why fish do not need to breathe the air the way humans do, is because there is oxygen in their food, that's not how it works. Fish obtain oxygen from the water, through their gills. Food does not contain any significant amount of free oxygen although it certainly contains compounds that are made with oxygen, such as water (H2O).
Where do fishes get oxygen when they breath?
fish have gills to breath so yeah
What is the structure through which crustacean obtain oxygen?
Crustaceans obtain oxygen through gills.
Do fish use oxygen or carbon dioxide?
Fishes use Oxygen in water. They absorb the absorbed oxygen through their gills.
How do squids obtain oxygen?
They get oxygen from their gills.
