1. Which will produce more apples; Orchard A with 1037 J/m2/day of NPP, Orchard B with 773 J/m2/day, or Orchard C with 2,000 J/m2/day?  2. Which will give you more crops (by mass); a corn field with a GPP of 5 kg/m2/harvest or a wheat field with a GPP of 10 kg/m2/harvest?    3. Assuming GPP of Forest A = GPP of Forest B = GPP of Forest C, which has the highest rate of respiration in its trees given that Forest A’s NPP = 1254 J/m2/day; Forest B’s NPP = 2157 J/m2/day and Forest C’s NPP = 779 J/m2/day?    4. Which has a higher rate of respiration; Bog A with NPP = 300 g/m2/day or Bog B with NPP = 100 g/m2/day?  (Assume GPP of Bog A = GPP of Bog B)    5. If a forest has a GPP of 200 J/m2/day and 100 J/m2/day worth of carbon dioxide flows out of that forest, what is the NPP?     6. If a dark bottle loses 1 g of biomass/mL and a light bottle gains 5 g of biomass/mL, what is the NPP? What is the GPP? How can it be calculated?

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1. Which will produce more apples; Orchard A with 1037 J/m2/day of NPP, Orchard B with 773 J/m2/day, or Orchard C with 2,000 J/m2/day? 



2. Which will give you more crops (by mass); a corn field with a GPP of 5 kg/m2/harvest or a wheat field with a GPP of 10 kg/m2/harvest? 

 

3. Assuming GPP of Forest A = GPP of Forest B = GPP of Forest C, which has the highest rate of respiration in its trees given that Forest A’s NPP = 1254 J/m2/day; Forest B’s NPP = 2157 J/m2/day and Forest C’s NPP = 779 J/m2/day? 

 

4. Which has a higher rate of respiration; Bog A with NPP = 300 g/m2/day or Bog B with NPP = 100 g/m2/day?  (Assume GPP of Bog A = GPP of Bog B) 

 

5. If a forest has a GPP of 200 J/m2/day and 100 J/m2/day worth of carbon dioxide flows out of that forest, what is the NPP?  

 

6. If a dark bottle loses 1 g of biomass/mL and a light bottle gains 5 g of biomass/mL, what is the NPP? What is the GPP? How can it be calculated? 

 

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