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How does earth worms breathe?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

They breathe by diffusion

Diffusion being the earthworms ability to absorb oxygen through its skin from water. Often after heavy rain earthworms will come to the surface which people thought was because they were drowning, but is in fact because as the rain water passes through the soil it losses its oxygen content bringing the earthworm to the surface.

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