Productivity

Question 1

What is production in productivity?

Answer 1

How much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next

Question 2

What is productivity?

Answer 2

the total amount of energy made by producer

some energy is used by the plant for metabolic processes

Question 3

What does R mean in productivity?

Answer 3

respiratory loss

respiratory loss = energy used by organisms for respiraton e.g. active transport

Question 4

What is the NPP?

Answer 4

net primary productivity

amount of chemical energy that a producer stores as biomasss - the total amount of energy available for next trophic level

Question 5

What does F mean?

Answer 5

faeces and urine

Question 6

What is N?

Answer 6

net productivity

Question 7

What is I?

Answer 7

total amount of food ingested by consumer

Question 8

How do you find out net productivity?

Answer 8

I - (R+F)

Question 9

How do you find out NPP?

Answer 9

GPP - R

Question 10

How do you calculate energy transfer efficiency?

Answer 10

N / I x 100