Bioenergetics and Trophic Dynamics Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• consumer : heterotroph; depends on primary producers for energy.
• primary producer : autotroph; converts sunlight and chemical energy into energy used by the rest of food chain.
• tertiary : the top predators of the food chain are _ consumers.
• secondary : _ consumers eat primary consumers.
• primary : _ consumers eat primary producers.
• energetic hypothesis : the length of the food chain is limited by the inefficiency of energy transfer along the chain.
• ectotherm : organism that depends on external sources for body heat.
• endotherm : organism that uses metabolic processes to produce body heat.
• gross : _ primary production is the total primary production.
• net : _ primary production is the amount of new chemical energy available to next trophic level.
• efficiency : primary production _ is the % of captured energy converted to biomass.
• assimilation : amount of the previous trophic level digested by a consumer trophic level.
• food web : the complex network of predatory interactions and energy flow within an ecosystem.