Energy Flow

3. Mass of living tissue
5. Live part of their life as plankton
7. Percent of energy that transfers from each trophic level
8. Break down organic material into an inorganic form
12. Spend entire life as plankton
15. Happens when an autotroph receives too much or too little light
16. An organism that consumes primary consumers
17. Physiological or biological necessities that affect survival
19. Most important primary consumer in the ocean
20. _____depth is when the amount of carbohydrates produced by and autotroph equals the amount required for its respiration
23. Have one or two whip-like flagella
25. Another name for blue-green algae
26. Rate of photosynthesis-respiration cycle
28. Made of levels, showing how energy transfers from one level of organisms to the next as they consume each other
30. Silica cell wall of a diatom

1. A wide variety of organisms that share a habitat and lifestyle
2. Coastal temperate and subpolar regions are ocean regions that have the ___primary productivity
4. Another name for an event called "Harmful Algae Blooms"
6. Responsible for most of the ocean's primary production
9. Time of explosive reproduction and growth of plankton species
10. Energy source for photosynthetic organisms
11. Better represents the flow of energy in nature than a trophic pyramid
13. Also called cyanophytes, bacteria, with chlorophyll
14. Have an internal support structure of silica
18. Has a rigid cell wall made of silica
21. Nitrogen and ___are inorganic nutrients
22. Consumes autotrophs/producers
24. Decomposition renews____materials necessary for energy to enter life through primary production; completes materials cycle
27. Most efficient ecosystem on earth
29. Most efficient photosynthesizes