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How Do Earthworms Get Oxygen?

My fifth grader needs to write a paper on how worms differ from snakes.

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    Earthworms need oxygen, just like other living creatures. They don't have lungs. They breath through their skin. Like frog breaths in water.  Their respiration process occur through diffusion (transfer of atoms from higher to lower concentration).
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    answered 2 years ago

      They get oxygen from there skin they  DO NOT  have lungs. They are like humans cause they need oxygen  but you cant suffocate them because they don't have lungs. HAHAAHAHAHA
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      answered 8 months ago

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