ECOSYSTEM vs. RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

The ecosystem and respiratory system interact in many different ways. Everything that we breath in comes from the ecosystem that we live in. Also everything that we breath is produces by the ecosystem. For example our bodies need oxygen to survive and that oxygen comes from plants like trees flowers and all the tiny blades of grass in your yard.

That is only one way these two systems interact with each other. The other way is how your body can give back to the environment. Once we breath in all of that oxygen we use it in our body. After it enters the lungs it travels through capillaries, veins and arteries it is dumped into the heart inside of blood. It is then circulated to a cell in the leg, arm, liver or even the brain. Once it reaches a cell in one of these limbs or organs, it becomes a part of cell respiration. The glucose from the blood stream is processed along with oxygen and turned into energy for the cell. After the oxygen is used it is sent back into the blood stream. There is also Co2 in the blood stream that is also exhaled back out through the lungs. Now back in the ecosystem, the Co2 that exited the body is is used by trees, flowers and other plants in a very similar way that we use oxygen, and guess what the waist product is? You guessed it, it is oxygen. This system works very well together because two different organisms use each others waist productsas energy.



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This is a picture of the respiratory system.