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    Gas exchange takes place in the tiny air sacs in the lungs called alveoli. Oxygen diffuses from the alveoli into the blood while carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the alveoli. Breathing, which involves inhaling to fill the alveoli with oxygen and exhaling to remove carbon dioxide, is necessary for gas exchange to occur through diffusion.

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    Gas exchange takes place in the tiny air sacs in the lungs called alveoli. Oxygen diffuses from the alveoli into the blood while carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the alveoli. Breathing, which involves inhaling to fill the alveoli with oxygen and exhaling to remove carbon dioxide, is necessary for gas exchange to occur through diffusion.

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    Gas exchange takes place in the tiny air sacs in the lungs called alveoli. Oxygen diffuses from the alveoli into the blood while carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the alveoli. Breathing, which involves inhaling to fill the alveoli with oxygen and exhaling to remove carbon dioxide, is necessary for gas exchange to occur through diffusion.

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    Gas exchange takes place in the tiny air sacs in the lungs called alveoli. Oxygen diffuses from the alveoli into the blood while carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the alveoli. Breathing, which involves inhaling to fill the alveoli with oxygen and exhaling to remove carbon dioxide, is necessary for gas exchange to occur through diffusion.

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    Gas Exchange
    Gas exchange takes place inside the lungs. The lungs are comprised of passageways that get
    smaller and smaller. At the end of the tubes are tiny air sacs called alveoli. Alveoli are one-cell
    thick sacs. They are surrounded by capillaries. Capillaries transport blood around the alveoli.

    Gas exchange takes place across the walls of the alveoli and capillaries. Carbon dioxide moves
    out of the blood in the capillaries and into the alveoli. It moves across the membranes of the
    capillaries and alveoli. Oxygen moves out of the alveoli and into the blood of the capillaries. Like
    carbon dioxide, it moves across the membranes of the capillaries and alveoli.

    Breathing is the process of taking in and removing air from the lungs. Taking in air and “filling
    up” the lungs is called inhalation. Removing air and “emptying” the lungs is called exhalation.
    Gas exchange cannot take place without breathing. A person inhales oxygen-rich air, which fills
    the alveoli in the lungs. In this way, the person takes oxygen into his or her body. Gas exchange
    takes place while the alveoli are filled with oxygen-rich air. Oxygen moves into the body and
    carbon dioxide moves out of the body. A person exhales carbon-dioxide rich air. In this way, the
    person removes carbon dioxide from his or her body.

    Gas exchange takes place by the process of diffusion. With diffusion, a substance passively and
    spontaneously moves from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. Both
    carbon dioxide and oxygen move into and out of the alveoli by diffusion.

    When a person inhales, alveoli fill up with oxygen-rich air. There


    Oxygen
    is a high concentration of oxygen in the alveoli and a low
    concentration of oxygen in the blood of the capillaries
    surrounding the alveoli. These capillaries carry deoxygenated
    Carbon blood, rich in carbon dioxide. Because oxygen concentration is
    dioxide
    higher in the alveoli, it diffuses into the blood. The capillaries
    carry oxygen-rich blood away from the alveoli and the alveoli no
    longer contain oxygen-rich air.

    When a person inhales, the concentration of carbon dioxide is lower in alveoli compared to the
    concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood of the capillaries. Carbon dioxide diffuses in the
    opposite direction of oxygen. Carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the alveoli. The
    alveoli now contain carbon dioxide-rich air. When a person exhales, he or she removes the
    carbon dioxide from the body.

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    Gas Exchange Answer Sheet

    Questions
    1. Where does gas exchange take place?
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    2. What is diffusion?
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    3. What is the difference between inhalation and exhalation?


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    4. Compare and contrast the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide in gas exchange.
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    5. What would happen to the concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide in a person’s
    blood if he or she stopped breathing?
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    ___________________________________________________________________
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    Name: ___________________________________ Date: ________________

    AN
    Gas Exchange Answer Sheet

    SW
    E RK
    Questions

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    1. Where does gas exchange take place?
    Gas exchange takes place in the lungs. More specifically, gas exchange takes place
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    in the alveoli.
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    2. What is diffusion?
    In diffusion, a substance passively and spontaneously moves from an area of high
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    concentration to an area of low concentration.
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    ___________________________________________________________________

    3. What is the difference between inhalation and exhalation?


    The process of taking in air and “filling up” the lungs is called inhalation. The
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    process of removing air and “emptying” the lungs is called exhalation.
    ___________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________
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    4. Compare and contrast the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide in gas exchange.
    When a person inhales, there is a high concentration of oxygen inside the alveoli.
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    Oxygen diffuses from inside the alveoli into the blood. At the same time, there is a
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    high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood. Therefore, carbon dioxide
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    diffuses from the blood into the alveoli.
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    5. What would happen to the concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide in a person’s
    blood if he or she stopped breathing?
    If a person stopped breathing, the concentration of carbon dioxide would stay high
    ___________________________________________________________________
    in the blood and the concentration of oxygen would stay low because gas exchange
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    wouldn’t occur. Gas exchange takes place because of breathing and without
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    breathing, gas exchange does not occur.
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