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What do fish use for respiration?
Fish use their gills to extract oxygen from water for respiration. As water passes over the gills, oxygen diffuses from the water into the fish's blood, while carbon dioxide diffuses out. This process is essential for the fish to obtain the oxygen necessary for survival.
What do fish use for breathing?
Breathing system of fish is very efficient as compared to land animals. You have dead space in case of land animals. No such dead space is present in case of fish. Oxygen is only sparingly soluble in water. (4 to 5 ml per liter.) You have continuous flow of water from mouth, which passes through the gills of fish. The very less quantity of oxygen, that is present in water is trapped due to large surface area of gills. It is a great wonder that fish survive with such a less quantity of oxygen in water. The aquatic plants supply the oxygen in almost molecular form that is required by fish to breath in.
What happens when fish gills are out of water?
When fish gills are out of water, they are unable to extract oxygen from the water, leading to suffocation. Gills rely on water passing through them to extract oxygen, so being out of water deprives the fish of the oxygen they need to survive.
Why do fish die if chemical fertilizers are mixed with water?
They breathe in the chemical water to get oxygen.
What chemical will turn reddish when exposed to water and oxygen?
I think what you are reffering to is iron oxide which is commonly known as rust
Do tadpoles get oxygen from the air or from the water like fish?
Tadpoles get oxygen from water like fish do.
How do fish absorb oxygen from water?
Fish can absorb water by the gills
Fish breathe in water with oxygen. What is the property of water?
The property of water that allows fish to breathe is its ability to dissolve oxygen. As water flows over the fish's gills, oxygen molecules from the water diffuse into their bloodstream, allowing them to extract oxygen for respiration.
How do fish breathe in water?
Most organisms, except for some such as anaerobic bacteria, respire oxygen. Fish have gills, gills have the ability to take the oxygen out of the molecule H2O.Fish have gills, which filter out the oxygen from the water. However, they can't breath out of water.A fish doesn't have lungs, it has gills, so it doesn't breathe in water really.Fish breathe under water by using their GILLSto surviveGills pull oxygen from the water but they can't breathe out of the water because the other chemicals in the air.
Why can fish survive in the water?
Fish have gills, which allow them to take oxygen out of the water, just as we take oxygen out of the air, to put it simply.
When water passes through the gills of the fish the fish get what?
Oxygen
When water passes through the gills of fish the fish get what?
Oxygen
Does Nemo have oxygen?
Fish get oxygen from the water using their gills
What is the main cause of fish kills in rivers polluted by fertilizers?
The main cause of fish kills in rivers polluted by fertilizers is nutrient runoff leading to algal blooms. These blooms deplete oxygen levels in the water as they decompose, resulting in hypoxic (low oxygen) conditions that can suffocate fish and other aquatic organisms.
Do puffer fish need oxygen?
Of course all fish need oxygen even puffer fish....
Why do fish live in pond?
They need water Fish can not process oxygen the same way mammels do. They get their oxygen throu molecules in the water.
Fish can extract oxygen from water using what?
Fish have lamellae in their gills. As the water flows through the gills and over the lamellae, the oxygen is extracted from the water.
