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.