Energy Flow

2. A wide variety of organisms that share a habitat and lifestyle
4. Responsible for most of the ocean's primary production
5. Also called cyanophytes, bacteria, with chlorophyll
7. Made of levels, showing how energy transfers from one level of organisms to the next as they consume each other
9. Live part of their life as plankton
11. Most efficient photosynthesizes
15. An organism that consumes primary consumers
16. Break down organic material into an inorganic form
17. Have one or two whip-like flagella
20. Mass of living tissue
21. Consumes autotrophs/producers
23. Happens when an autotroph receives too much or too little light
24. Most efficient ecosystem on earth

1. Spend entire life as plankton
3. Time of explosive reproduction and growth of plankton species
6. Has a rigid cell wall made of silica
8. Coastal temperate and subpolar regions are ocean regions that have the ___primary productivity
10. Have an internal support structure of silica
12. _____depth is when the amount of carbohydrates produced by and autotroph equals the amount required for its respiration
13. Silica cell wall of a diatom
14. Decomposition renews____materials necessary for energy to enter life through primary production; completes materials cycle
18. Physiological or biological necessities that affect survival
19. Better represents the flow of energy in nature than a trophic pyramid
22. Percent of energy that transfers from each trophic level