Relier Pairs Ecosystems VocabularyVersion en ligne Food Chains, Food Webs par Melinda Adams 1 Host 2 Biotic 3 Decomposer 4 Abiotic 5 Consumer 6 Predator 7 Producer 8 Ecosystem 9 Parasite 10 Prey Living factors in the environment Create their own food through the process of photosynthesis Animal that eats plants or other organisms Organism that lives in or on another organism and benefits by receiving nutrients from the host A community of interacting organisms and their environment Non-living factors in the environments Organisms that break down dead plants and animals Animal that hunts and eats another animal A host is an organism that supports a parasite. Sometimes the host is harmed by the parasite, and sometimes the relationship is neutral. But the host never benefits from the arrangement. Animal that gets eaten by a predator