Best Roots

What do you think the root -ast means? It is in words like asteroid or astronomy or asterisk * .

• star

• sky

• space

What do you think the root -auto- means? It is in words like automobile, autobiography, and autograph.

• self

• car

• drive

What does the root -audi- mean? It is in words like audio, audible, audience, and audition.

• hear

• German

• to perform

What does the root -bene- mean? It is in the words benefit, beneficial, and beneficiary.

• good

• pasta

• money

What does the root -bio- mean? It is in words like biography, biome, and biological.

• life

• cell

• story

What do you think the word Asterozoa mean?

• The starfish family

• A tiny cell.

Use what you know about the root "audi." What do you think the word auditory means?

• relating to the sense of hearing

• Being by yourself

Use what you know about the root bene. What do you think benefactor means?

• a good person who offers help or donates money

• a type of math

Use what you know about the root bio. What do you think the word biopsy means?

• looking at tissue removed from a living body to figure out if the person has an disease

• the study of the life of rocks

Think about what you know about the root auto. What do you think the word autonomous means?

• self-governing

• driveable