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A sponge obtains food and oxygen by using its cells to filter the food and oxygen particles from the water around it. It can also filter in bacteria and algae. The filtered water also helps to carry away a sponges waste. A sponge is sessile, or usually attached to one place for its whole life, luckily the current continusly moves the water so that it is always clean around the sponge. I hope I have amnaged to help you. Good luck! =)
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∙ 12y agoThey absorb it from the surrounding water.
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∙ 13y agoa sponge can obtain oxygen by it's holes and by the water
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∙ 13y agoOxygen is absorbed directly into the cells by the process of diffusion.
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Do sponges give off food and oxygen from the water?
Sponges are considered ANIMAL life not plant life. Therefore they do not give off oxygen, they consume it.
Do sponges require oxygen to breath?
Sponges do not breathe as lungs are required to do so. Sponges do need oxygen to survive, as it is a vital component of aerobic cellular respiration. Cellular respiration is a means of the creation of energy (more specifically ATP) for cells.
How does a sponge breathe?
Sponges get oxygen by taking water through it's pores. The water moves over cells inside the sponge and oxygen in the water moves into the sponge's cells.
What do sponges do in the ocean?
Sponges in the ocean can live up to 200 years old. They are primary produces and give off more oxygen than they take in.
What is the name of the process of sponges getting oxygen into their cells?
The process is called diffusion
Can sponges only live in water?
the answer is "yes" because sponges are attached to hard surfaces underwater, and they are well adapted to their watery life. moving water currents carry food and oxygen to them and take away the sponges' waste products.
How do sponges bring oxygen and food into their bodies?
They depend on the constant waterflow of the ocean through their bodies to obtain food and oxygen and remove wastes.
What are four characteristics shared by sponges and humans?
Both humans and sponges are made of millions of cells, both need oxygen to survive, both need water and both produce waste products.
What is a sponge's favourite food?
Sponges are bottom-dwelling creatures that attach themselves to something solid, such as a rock. They rely on the system of the water canal to deliver food and oxygen to them. Sponges consume plankton.
What four characteristics are shared by both sponges and human?
Both humans and sponges are made of millions of cells, both need oxygen to survive, both need water and both produce waste products.
Are sponges heterotrophs?
Sponges are animals not plants and they consist of an outer thin layer of cells and a inner mass of cells. Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems, instead they rely on maintaining a constant flow of water going through their bodies to obtain food, oxygen and to remove waste products. There are 9000 known species of sponges known and about 80% of them are saltwater , the lowest depths of some species of sponges are 8,800 m (5.5mi).
Is the sponge Gelliodes fibrosa aerobic or anaerobic?
All sponges are aerobic, they need oxygen to live. Some do however, live in low oxygen environments and they can 'house' anaerobic bacteria.
