| A | B |
| Biosphere | Living material, organics |
| Lithosphere | Pertaining to Earths's crust, mantle and other layers |
| Atmosphere | The thin layer of gases that surround our earth |
| Hydrosphere | Pertaining to water on earth |
| Ecosystem | Organisms living in a specific place and how they interact with each other in their local environment. |
| Succession | Changes to an systems (over time) |
| Cycle | a repeating pattern such as the seasons of the year:Water, Rock and carbon are 3 examples. |
| System | a whole that is more than the sum of their parts |
| Earth | a recycling planet powered by the flow of solar energy |
| Matter | The stuff that in in our world |
| Energy | that property in a system that never changes in amount. Energyflows into and out of a system. |