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What are the structures that allow for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and blood?

The tiny air sacs of the lungs were oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged are the alveoli.


Which organ contains alveoli bronchioles and bronchi?

The lungs contain alveoli, bronchioles, and bronchi. Alveoli are tiny air sacs where oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide in the blood. Bronchioles are small airways that branch from bronchi, which are larger airways that lead to the lungs.


What consists of the respiratory conducting zone?

nostril,nasal cavity,epiglottis,trachea,bronchi,lungs,bronchioles,alveoli isthe answerafter the nasal cavity and trache air moves into the brinchi, into the bronchioles and intp the alveiolie where gases are exchanged (co2) carbon dioxide and (o2) oxygen


What are the hollow spheres of cells within the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged?

The alveoli are the hollow spheres of cells within the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged. They are thin-walled, and closely associated with the thin-walled capillaries that surround them. Oxygen and carbon dioxide diffuse across these thin walls to move from the blood to the lungs.


What gases are exchanged in the respiratory system?

The gases that are exchanged are oxygen and carbon dioxide.


Where are oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged in the lungs?

oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in alveoli (singular alveolus).


Which 2 gases are exchanged at the surface of the air sac?

Oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged at the surface of the air sac. Oxygen is taken in from the air into the bloodstream, while carbon dioxide is released from the bloodstream into the air to be exhaled.


What gases are exchanged in respiratory system?

The gases that are exchanged are oxygen and carbon dioxide.


What gas enters the alveoli?

Oxygen is removed from the alveoli by the cappillaries.


What is exchanged in the respiratory system?

Carbon dioxide


Where does the oxygen enters and carbon dioxide leaves?

Oxygen must enter our blood and Carbon Dioxide must leave the blood through our lungs. They do so by diffusion between the cappillaries.


What's the process where gases are exchanged in the lungs?

Its called respiration. Oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide.