Gerald P.

Buctuan
Ezekiel Carag,
Rico Toledo,
Kienne Aguirre

 Importance of gas exchange in the body

1. What is gas exchange?

-Gas exchange is the delivery of oxygen from the lungs to the bloodstream,
and the elimination of carbon dioxide from the bloodstream to the lungs

2. What will happen carbon dioxide builds up in your blood?

- You’ll experience respiratory failure. It causes respiration failure because
carbon dioxide builds up too much in your blood, thus when your lungs can’t
remove properly carbon dioxide in your body it will build up in your blood
causing harm to your body organs

3. Why does gas exchange important to the body?

- The importance of gas exchange in the body is because it helps in
eliminating carbon dioxide that is dangerous in the body from the lungs to
bloodstream

 Mechanism of gas exchange in animals

1. How does gas exchange in animals work?

- In animals, gas exchange Follow the same general pattern as in plant.
Oxygen and carbon dioxide move by diffusion across most membranes, In
simple animals the exchange occurs directly with the environment. But with
complex animals such as mammals, the exchange occurs between the
environment and the blood. The blood then carries oxygen to sleeply
embedded cells and transport carbon dioxide out to where it can be
removed from the body

2. What is the work of Alveoli?

- Alveoli is the plural name of alveolus each alveolus is surrounded of blood
vessels for transporting oxygen
 3. Why fishes use gills in gas exchange?
- Fishes use gills in gas exchange because gills are flaps of fissus richly
supplied with blood vessels. As a fish swims, it draws water into the mouth
and across the gills. Oxygen diffuse out of the water in to the blood
vessels of the gill, while carbon dioxide leaves the blood vessels and
enters the water pausing by the gills.

 Pathway of air in human body

1. How does air travel from outside of the body to inside the body
- Air enters through the nose/mouth, moves through the nasal cavity, the
pharynx , the larynx, enters the trachea, moves to the bronchi and
bronchioles to the alveoli.

2. What is the last pathway of air and how it enables transfer of oxygen and
carbon dioxide in the body?
- Alveoli, it enables the transfer of the oxygen and carbon dioxide through
surrounding capilliaries that connect the pulmonary arteries and veins thus
enabling transfer of oxygen and carbon