The cats in the bag

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Across
  1. 3. the total mass of living organisms
  2. 5. partitioning the sharing of resources by specialization
  3. 6. the pelagic environment beyond the shelf break
  4. 9. level each of the steps in a food chain
  5. 11. relating to or denoting the depths or bed of the ocean, especially between about 10,000 and 20,000
  6. 12. organisms that live on the bottom
  7. 14. a non-living component of enviroment
  8. 16. a non- component of an enviroment
  9. 17. the bottom below 6,000m
Down
  1. 1. exclusion the eliminaition of one species by another
  2. 2. the bottom between the shelf break and a depth of 1,000m to 4,000m
  3. 4. growth Unrestricted population growth where the population grows at a faster rate with each successive
  4. 7. resource an essential factor whose short supply limits the growth of a population
  5. 8. the study of interactions between organisms and their enviroment
  6. 10. organisms that live the water column, away from the bottom
  7. 13. capacity the maximum population size that can sustained by available
  8. 15. growth population growths that is constrained by biotic or abiotic such as competition or nutrients