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There are two main gasses that are exchanged in the lungs: carbon dioxide and oxygen. The lungs use tiny air chambers called alveoli to take in oxygen and let out carbon dioxide.

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What are two locations in the body that gasses are exchanged?

lungs and mouth


Gasses are exchanged in what blood vessel?

Capillaries.


Which substances are exchanged between the blood in the capillaries and the air in the alveoli?

Oxygen is exchanged from the air in the alveoli into the blood in the capillaries, while carbon dioxide is exchanged from the blood in the capillaries into the air in the alveoli during the process of respiration.


What gases are exchanged in lungs during breathing?

Oxygen and carbon dioxide are the gases exchanged in the lungs during breathing.


And are the gases we exchange when we breath?

We breath oxygen in and exchange it with CO2 out. The other gasses in the air (nitrogen, etc) enter our lungs when we breath, but do not go into our system or get exchanged, they just get pushed out again.


What gases are exchanged in the lungs during breathing?

Oxygen and carbon dioxide are the gases exchanged in the lungs during breathing.


Where are gases exchanged in the lungs?

alevoli


Where in your body are gases exchanged?

Lungs.


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

Its called respiration. Oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide.


What is the aveloli in the lungs a site of?

These are tiny pockets in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.


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.


Where are oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged in the lungs?

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