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