Define Gross Primary Productivity.

Q: Give brief description of factors that affects primary productivity.

A: The total amount of energy that is trapped, or “fixed,” by all autotrophs in an ecosystem is called…

Q: Explain how biotic and abiotic factors affect population growth.

A: The variation in the number of people of specials in a zone over the long run and the variation in…

Q: Discuss the role of fishery in enhancement of food production.

A: Fishery is an industry which deals with catching, processing, and marketing of fishes and other…

Q: What is primary productivity?

A: Primary producers are all green plant which synthesizes food from sunlight. They are also known as…

Q: Gross primary productivity refers to the total

A: Gross primary productivity :  Of all vegetation types,  tropical rainforests grow in climatic…

Q: What are replenishable resources?

A: A resource is anything that is acquired from the environment to meet the organisms wants and needs.…

Q: How do gross primary productivity (GPP) and net primary productivity (NPP) differ?

A: Energy flows through natural pathways and biogeochemical cycles. This includes the flow of amounts…

Q: discuss ecosystem productivity with examples

A: Ecosystem productivity can be defined as the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem.…

Q: Draw an exponential and a logistic growth curve, andexplain what accounts for their different…

A: Population growth occurs when the number of individuals in the population increases. Death rates,…

Q: Distinguish between gross primary production and net primaryproduction.

A: The ecosystem can be defined as the geographic area where the plants, animals, and other organisms,…

Q: Define the pyramid of biomass?

A: Biomass is the total dry mass within a food chain or food web of one animal or plant species. A…

Q: Define Net Primary Productivity. To get this right, you must mention GPP in your answer (In a way…

A: Gross primary productivity (GPP): It is the total amount of organic matter synthesised by…

Q: In what ways do consumers depend on producers? on decomposers? Include energy considerations in your…

A: Producers are the green plants that mark the first organism to start the food chain in an ecosystem.…

Q: . Identify the nutritional differences between producers, consumers, and decomposers

A: Biosphere: it is termed as the integration of atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphereEcosystem: It…

Q: What is the approximate value of net primary productivity of biosphere?

A: Biosphere accounts for all the ecosystems present on earth or the zone where life is present. An…

Q: As the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases, how will primary productivity impacted?…

A: As the level of carbon dioxide increases the heat in the surrounding environment increases too. The…

Q: What environmental factor is depicted in the graph? Explain

A: In research, certain experiments are carried out by studying the effect of physical, chemical, or…

Q: How would the growth rate pattern be affected by infinite resources?

A: There are two growth models namely,(a) Exponential growth(b) Logistic growth

Q: Difference between Primary and secondary productivity.

A: Ecosystem is a community or collection of living organisms that live in and interacts with each…

Q: Compare and contrast subsistence agriculture and industrialized agricultural

A: Agriculture can be defined as a practice of growing crops and certain plants; for the production of…

Q: Define producers,consumers and decomposers.

A: An organism is a living thing. Organisms are classified by taxonomy into groups as unicellular…

Q: What is gross primary productivity and net primary productivity?

A: Most algae, plants, and cyanobacteria are the photoautotrophs as they perform photosynthesis.

Q: Examine the graph showing common sources of energy used in the United States in 2006. United States…

A: Renewable sources of energy are those which has an unlimited supply. They can replenish themselves.…

Q: What is a primary producer?

A: Plants are multicellular organisms in the kingdom Plantae that use photosynthesis to make their own…

Q: Differentiate between primary productivity & secondary productivity?

A: Biomass is the plant’s or animal’s organic material used to produce energy. In an ecosystem, the…

Q: List the ways agriculture can potentially pollute the environment.

A: Agricultural pollution is the contamination of the soil, air and water resulting from farming…

Q: List three criteria for sustainable biofuel production.

A: Biofuel can be defined as the fuel that is produced through contemporary processes from biomass,…

Q: Between hydroelectric, hydrokinetic, and wind energies, which would be more accessible to the…

A: -> Hydroelectric energy is generated by turbines arranged to dams.When water flows over…

Q: Define the terms  consumers, producers and decomposers?

A: In an ecosystem their are different organisms found on different trophic levels according to their…

Q: define  primary producer and define secondary consumer

A: Organisms occupy a place in the natural surroundings or in a community according to their feeding…

Q: Differentiate Terrestrial Ecosystem from Aquatic Ecosystem in terms of net primary productivity.…

A: Terrestrial ecosystems are those which are found only in land which includes tropical rainforests,…

Q: What is the difference between primary productivity and secondary productivity?

A: Productivity in the ecology terms is defined as the generation of the biomass. The autotrophs…

Q: Define productivity as the word is used in ecology. What is a pri-mary producer? What is the…

A: The word productivity is taken from the root word meaning to produce. In ecology, productivity can…

Q: What does primary productivity measure? What does it tell you about an ecosystem? Explain your…

A: Plants produce starch during photosynthesis in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll pigment.…

Q: Define secondary productivity.

A: Productivity refers to biomass generation over a time period by plants during photosynthesis in an…

Q: What does primary productivity measure? What does it tell you about an ecosystem?

A: Each ecosystem have a food web and organisms at different trophic  levels .

Q: What is primary productivity? Give brief description of factors that affectprimary productivity

A: An ecosystem is a community or group of living organisms that live in and interacts with each other…

Q: Compare renewable versus nonrenewable resources.

A: Introduction Ecological Footprint (EF) represents the demand of a person or a group of a person on…

Q: Assume there are 1000 units of energy in the producer level of the energy pyramid. How many units of…

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Q: The term defined as the amount of glucose that is available as new biomass to the next trophic level…

A: The trophic level of an organism refers to the position that it occupies in a food chain, a food…

Q: Differentiate between gross and net primary productivity.

A: Primary productivity is defined as the rate at which plants and other photosynthetic organisms…