Root words

To rupture is to...

• rap on a subway in a music video

• explode

• burst or break open a body part

• Karate chop a sandwich

to erupt means...

• to bother or annoy

• to suffocate

• to tackle

• to break out with force

the study of living things

• biography
• biology
• macrobiotic diet
• biopsy

a medicine used it save lives because it destroys harmful bacteria

• antibiotic
• neurobiology
• biopsy
• biosphere

Chron

• time

• events

• play

• study

Continuing or occurring again and again for a long time

• Chronic

• Chronometer

• Chronological

• Synchronize

arranged in the order that things happened or came to be

• chronic

• chronological

• synchronize

• chronometer

What root means writing?

• Port
• Graph
• Miss/Mit
• Ped

What word names the type of book that was written about a person's life but was written by a different person than the subject of the book?

• autobiography
• biography
• photography
• cartography

telegraph

• to work at home and send work back to the

  office by computer

• an old-fashioned system of sending written

  messages over long distances with wires and

  signals

• a device used to send sounds (such as

  people’s voices) over long distances

• a long tube-shaped device used to see things

  that are far away

• to broadcast something by television