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Question about Primary Productivity

Subject Environmental science

Environmental science

Source Originais Teachy

Originais Teachy

Topic Primary Productivity

Primary Productivity

Difficulty Hard

Hard

(Originais Teachy 2023) - Question Hard of Environmental science

Imagine a scenario where two ecosystems, a tropical rainforest and a desert, are observed for a year. Considering your knowledge of primary productivity, the availability of sunlight, and the role of photosynthetic and chemosynthetic organisms, predict which ecosystem would have a higher rate of primary productivity and explain the factors that might contribute to this difference. Also, discuss how this difference in primary productivity could affect the food chain in each ecosystem.

The desert would have a higher rate of primary productivity due to the adaptations of desert plants to conserve water and nutrients, resulting in a more complex and diverse food chain compared to the tropical rainforest ecosystem.

Both the tropical rainforest and the desert would have similar rates of primary productivity due to the abundance of sunlight in both ecosystems, resulting in similar complexity and diversity in their food chains.

The tropical rainforest would have a lower rate of primary productivity due to the overabundance of water and nutrients, which could lead to competition among plants and a less diverse food chain compared to the desert ecosystem.

The desert would have a higher rate of primary productivity due to the abundance of sunlight, despite the lack of water and nutrients, and this would result in a more complex and diverse food chain compared to the tropical rainforest ecosystem.

The tropical rainforest would have a higher rate of primary productivity due to the abundance of sunlight, water, and nutrients, and this would result in a more complex and diverse food chain compared to the desert ecosystem.

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