The Movement of Energy

3. An organism that is incapable of photosynthesis and must obtain its energy by consuming other organisms.
7. A consumer that eats producers.
10. The energy captured by producers in an ecosystem minus the energy producers respire.
11. Fungi and bacteria that convert organic matter into small elements and molecules that can be recycled back into the ecosystem.
12. The process by which producers use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose.
15. An organism that specializes in breaking down dead tissues and waste products into smaller particles.
16. An organism that uses the energy of the Sun to produce usable forms of energy.
18. The successive levels of organisms consuming one another.
20. The proportion of consumed energy that can be passed from one trophic level to another.
22. The process by which cells unlock the energy of chemical compounds.

1. The total mass of all living matter in a specific area.
2. A consumer that eats producers.
4. A representation of the distribution of biomass, numbers, or energy among trophic levels.
5. A carnivore that eats primary consumers.
6. The total amount of solar energy that producers in an ecosystem capture via photosynthesis over a given amount of time.
8. An organism that consumes dead animals.
9. A carnivore that eats secondary consumers.
13. The amount of biomass present in an ecosystem at a particular time.
14. A consumer that eats other consumers.
17. A complex model of how energy and matter move between trophic levels.
19. The region of our planet where life resides, the combination of all ecosystems on Earth.
21. The sequence of consumption from producers through tertiary consumers.