Water

Fill in the blank:

1. If there is a _________ of rainfall during the growing season, farmers have to water their crops.

• shortage

• short age

• shor tage

Fill in the blank:

2. Precipitation that falls on land flows slowly through the layers of soil to replenish the aquifer, an __________ layer of permeable rocks

• un derground

• under ground

• underground

Fill in the blank:

3. Precipitation _________ rivers and lakes.

• ref ill

• refills

• re fill

Fill in the blank:

4. Water is a ________ resource.

• re newable

• renew able

• renewable

What smaller word is a part of each word that you filled in the blanks?

• short, ground, fill, new

• ground, fill

• new, fill

What is that “smaller” word called?

• root

• prefix

• suffix

Choose the prefixes of the words you used to fill in the blanks.

• short, ground, fill, new

• -age, -able

• un-, re-, under-

Choose the suffixes of the words you used to fill in the blanks.

• -age, -able

• short, ground, fill, new

• un-, re-, under-