| Organisms | An individual plant or animal. | Endemic | Lots of our plants and animals can only be found here in New Zealand. |
| Species | A kind of animal or plant. | Continents | a large continuous mass of land conventionally regarded as a region. |
| Linnean Taxonomy | a classification system for the natural world to standardize the naming of species and order them according to their characteristics and relationships with one another. | Gondwana | one of the two ancient supercontinents |
| Geography | Studying physical features of the earth. | Adaptation | Getting used to your surroundings and adjusting accordingly |
| Biodiversity | All life that you find in a specific area. | Extinct | No more animals left of their species or kind. |
| Photosynthesis | The way plants and some organisms use the sunlight to synthesize their nutrients from carbon dioxide. | Evolution | The way plants, animals, and humans develop do to their environment. |
| Pedosphere | The soil mantle of the Earth | Climate | Weather conditions prevailing in a place for a certain amount of time. |
| Decomposition | the first stage in the recycling of nutrients that have been used by an organism | Environment | The surroundings that a human or animal lives in. |
| Ecosystem | Interacting organisms and their physical environment | Dispersal | the spreading of things over a wide area. |
| Niche | The unique ways they interact with their environment. | Canopy | cloth covering hung or held up over something. |