Ecology Crossword

3. Create their own energy.
12. The amount of biomass produced minus the amount used by producers as fuel for their own cellular respiration.
13. The amount of solar energy converted into chemical energy by an ecosystems producers for a given area during a given period of time
15. What are are some of the most terrestrial ecosystems that contribute to a large portion of the Earth’s total biomass?
16. What have a low production but contribute the most to the Earth’s total net primary production due to their large size?
17. All organisms in community + abiotic environment where organisms interact.
20. Air, water, and soil are examples of ________ components of an ecosystem.
21. Rely on producers for energy.

1. An animal that eats fruits and grains.
2. An animal that eats the meat from secondary consumers.
4. Both energy flow and chemical cycling involve transfer of substances through _________ levels of ecosystem.
5. An animal that eats the meat from herbivores.
6. The community is the _______ component of an ecosystem.
7. What have a high production, but due to their smaller size, they have a low contribution to the total global production?
8. Transfer of materials within the ecosystem.
9. The amount of living, organic material in an ecosystem.
10. What flows through and out of an ecosystem?
11. Passage of energy through components of ecosystem.
14. What typically limits the length of a food chain.
18. What are recycled in an ecosystem?
19. The top of the food chain.