Gas Exchange Partial Pressure

Question 1

Concentration of a gas in either a gaseous or liquid environment is referred

Answer 1

Partial pressure

Question 2

Atmospheric pressure may be measured in what and so a composite of the what

Answer 2

MmHg and composite of partial pressures of all the gases within it

Question 3

One atmosphere is equal to

Answer 3

760mmHg

Question 4

Partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide can therefore be calculated from what

Answer 4

Their relative proportions in air

Question 5

What other property of oxygen and carbon dioxide in water regulates the diffusion

Answer 5

Relative solubility

Question 6

Water solubility is important why?

Answer 6

Gases have to diffuse through watery environment

Question 7

What has watery environments

Answer 7

Fluid that coats alveoli, cytoplasm if type 1 cells, cytoplasm of capillary endothelial cells, blood plasma, cytoplasm of red blood cells

Question 8

Is carbon dioxide or oxygen more soluble in water

Answer 8

Carbon dioxide

Question 9

What promotes gas movements

Answer 9

Differences in partial pressures and relative solubilities

Question 10

Movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide is due to what

Answer 10

Diffusion