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