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The lower the percentage of oxygen air contains, the more frequent a breath must be taken in order to maintain the blood oxygen level at an acceptable level.

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Q: How the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere affects respiration?
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During respiration how does oxygen get into a plant?

by oxygen in the atmosphere


Why is the environment essential in respiration?

The environment is what you live in. Part of the environment is the atmosphere and this contains Oxygen. In respiration you breath in the atmosphere and get the Oxygen you need from it.


What is the gas in the atmosphere important to respiration?

oxygen


Does oxygen can enter the atmosphere during cellular respiration or photosynthesis?

Oxygen can enter the atmosphere during celluar respiration, because if it enters photosynthesis, how about the other organisms?


Is the oxygen liberated during photosynthesis equal to the amount used in respiration by plants?

No, it must be more. Remember respiration by animals plus the storage in the atmosphere. Plus random oxidation.


How does cell respiration affect the environment?

Celluar respiration affects global warming by putting Co2 into the atmosphere and having us breathe it out for them to transimt. But if there is more Co2 into the atmosphere, plants are getting overloaded and they are dying from overdose of O2.


What happens to the atmosphere during cellular respiration?

oxygen is added to the atmosphere when plants take in carbon dioxide during cellular respiration


What gas in the atmosphere important to respiration?

The essential gas is oxygen...


How is it possible that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere stays at a constant 21 percent when there are so many organisms using oxygen to breathe?

Oxygen is being renewed constantly by the process of photosyntesis which absorbs carbon dioxide and converts it into oxygen. The rate of photosyntesis is higher than the amount of respiration, so the amount of organisms will not make oxygen dissapear.


What happens to the oxygen?

It released into the atmosphere, if it isn't immeadiately used in respiration.


Which process provides most of the oxygen found in the Earth atmosphere?

respiration


How does cellular respiration effect carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

It turns in into oxygen