Ecology Cross Word Puzzle

A large region or area defined by the climate, soil, plants and animals found there.
Atmospheric events averaged over a very long period of time.
Debris on the surface of the land that has not begun to decompose.
Type is defined by the relative size of the particles.
To study the ways in which living and non-living factors in a region interact.
The amount that the given area and it's resources can sustain for living organisms.
The type of "fighting" for resources carried out between members of the same species.
Required by plants, influenced by climate and other plants.
Non-living factors that influence an ecosystem.
Plant-like material found in the Arctic biome as well as throughout the world.
The part or relationship an organism has with the factors within the environment.
Two important by-products are nitrites and nitrates.
All the eating patterns between members in a community.
Every individual organism of every species within a given region or area.
Different organisms living in close relationship to one another.