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What is it called when the oxygen in your lungs moves from the air spaces from high concentration to low concentration?
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If you held your breath what would happen to the concentration of oxygen in your lungs?
If you held your breath, the concentration of oxygen in your lungs would decrease. The concentration of carbon dioxide would increase in your lungs.
Oxygen diffuses into the capillaries of the lungs because there is?
It diffuses because the concentration of oxygen in the capillaries is lower than the concentration of oxygen in the air (law of diffusion).
Oxygen diffuses into the capillaries of the lungs because there is a?
greater concentration of oxygen in the air sacs of the lungs than in the capillaries.
What is the concentration of oxygen in the lungs normally compared to carbon dioxide?
what is the concentration of oxygemnin the lungs normally compared to carbon dioxide
What are the air spaces in the lungs called?
The air spaces in the lungs are called pulmonary alveoli. They are where gas exchange occurs in the lungs of mammals.
Where is the blood with the highest oxygen concentration?
pulmonary vein or lungs
What is it called when oxygen moves from the lungs to the bloodstream?
diffusion - the natural movement of particles from high to low density. oxygen dissolves in a film of liquid water lining the alveoli (tiny air sacs in the lungs) and the wall of the alveoli and wall of the capillary (each 1 cell thick) into the blood in the capillary. the oxygen is moving from the high concentration of oxygen in the lung to the low concentration of oxygen in the blood. this low concentration is maintained in the blood since it continuously flows away and is replaced by oxygen poor blood. the high concentration of oxygen in the lungs is of course maintained by breathing in fresh air.
How can the oxygen you bring in to your body get into your circulatory system?
your lungs have structures called alveoli. The alveoli are surrounded by capillary beds which carry blood. The oxygen enters the alveoli when you inhale. The oxygen then diffuses from high concentration in your alveoli to low concentration the blood in the capillaries surrounding the alveoli.
How can the oxygen you bring into your body get to your circulatory system?
your lungs have structures called alveoli. The alveoli are surrounded by capillary beds which carry blood. The oxygen enters the alveoli when you inhale. The oxygen then diffuses from high concentration in your alveoli to low concentration the blood in the capillaries surrounding the alveoli.
If you hold your breath the relative concentration of oxygen in your lungs would?
DECREASE :O
Where is the lowest concentration of oxygen in the body?
You have low concentration of oxygen in the veins. It is low in right side of the heart. It is supposed to be the lowest before it enters the alveoli of the lungs.
Why our body cells have a different oxygen concentration compared to the blood flowing to them from our lungs?
Diffusion from high concentration to low concentration.The oxygen concentration in the air in the lungs is higher than in the blood.The oxygen concentration in the blood is higher than in body cells.If these differences in concentration did not exist oxygen could not move from the air to the blood to body cells. While we are alive body cells consume some of the oxygen they receive, reducing their oxygen concentration and maintaining these differences. When we die the body cells quit consuming oxygen and over a period of time the levels of oxygen slowly begin evening out (however as blood no longer moves from the lungs to the body oxygen diffusion slows dramatically, leaving some body cells with much lower oxygen levels than would be normal).
