Online Productivity Lab

1. Fish tank, full of algae

2. 7.4 meters
3. Two bottles
4. So there is no air, because it will skew or mess up the reading
5. Elodea
6. One bottle is covered with black paper, with a cup on top of it so there wouldn’t be light (measures the
cellar respiration) where the second bottle is going to have both the photosynthesis and cellar respiration as it
is going to stay under the light.
7. The amount of water used, the same type of bottle, same plant (Elodea), same temperature of water
9. How much is used through cellular respiration
10. 10.0
11. 5.3

Initial dissolved oxygen (ppm) Final dissolved oxygen in dark bot- Final dissolved oxygen in light bot-
(both bottles) tle (no photosynthesis, only respira- tle (both respiration and photosyn-
tion) thesis)

7.4 5.3 10.0

12. R = 4.75 mg O2/L/day

13. GPP = 7.35 O2/L/day
14. NPP = 2.6 mg O2/L/day
15. NPP = 6.3

More practice:
16. 0.5 kgC/m2/year
17. 20,000 kcal/m2/year
18. D
20. Ecosystems have high productivity due to abiotic factors such as water. climate & nutrient availability
which are favorable