Relier Pairs Ecosystems VocabularyVersion en ligne Food Chains, Food Webs par Melinda Adams 1 Producer 2 Host 3 Biotic 4 Prey 5 Ecosystem 6 Parasite 7 Consumer 8 Predator 9 Decomposer 10 Abiotic Non-living factors in the environments A community of interacting organisms and their environment Animal that gets eaten by a predator Living factors in the environment Create their own food through the process of photosynthesis 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. Organisms that break down dead plants and animals Animal that eats plants or other organisms Organism that lives in or on another organism and benefits by receiving nutrients from the host