Root Words

What does the root bio mean?

• life
• to throw or toss
• to speak 
• health

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

life

• bio
• hydr

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

If a word has the Greek root bio- in it, what does it stand for?

• animals

• earth

• life

• land

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

This word means the study of life.

• progeny 
• biological
• biohazard
• biology

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

This words means someone's life story written by someone else.

• autobiography
• biography
• progeny
• maternal

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

This word means someone's life story written by that person.

• autobiography
• biography
• spectacle
• inspect

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

What does "graph" mean?

• foot
• light
• write
• time

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

If -ology means to study, what does microbiology mean?

• Study of large animals
• Study of small living organisms
• Study of living creatures
• Study of small rocks

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

What does the root word bio mean? 
ex: microbiology, autobiography

• Air
• Atmosphere
• Life
• Text

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

What does the root word ology mean?
ex: microbiology, macrobiology

• The study of
• plant life
• material
• transform

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B