Soon you learn that each building block seems to be made of smaller building blocks-until you reach the smallest building blocks with the funny name-quarks. The list below deals with living things and how each building block is made from yet a smaller set of building blocks. Biosphere-Our Earth is made up of all living and non-living things. The interaction of all these building blocks make up the biosphere. Biomes-The different environments on Earth are all unique, but there is a way for us to group areas by habitat type, such as tropical rainforest, desert, or marine environment.