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