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WorksheetsAll Scientific Suffixes PRACTICE Test
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What does the suffix -ase mean?
a)
referring to a sugar
b)
referring to an enzyme
c)
spherical cell
d)
formative
2.
Suffix in the word biology means
a)
study of
b)
resembling
c)
part
d)
form
3.
What suffix means loosen?
a)
lysis
b)
logy
c)
phyte
d)
mer
4.
What does the suffix in the word polymer mean?
a)
part
b)
measure
c)
resembling
d)
bearer, carrier
5.
Every car has an odometer which
a)
measures
b)
part
c)
loosens
d)
studies
6.
Which suffix means measuring?
a)
metry
b)
oid
c)
mer
d)
phyte
7.
Which suffix means form?
a)
morph
b)
oid
c)
phore
d)
mer
8.
What is the meaning of the suffix in the word ANDROID?
a)
resembling
b)
measuring
c)
form
d)
bearer, carrier
9.
Glucose, Fructose, Dextrose all have the same suffix which means
a)
denoting a sugar
b)
bearer, carrier
c)
possessed by a plan
d)
loosen
10.
Which suffix means bearer, carrier?
a)
phore
b)
morph
c)
oid
d)
lysis
11.
Appendectomy: What does the suffix in the word mean?
a)
cut
b)
treatment
c)
cure
d)
infection
12.
What is the meaning of the suffix in the word physiotherapy?
a)
treatment
b)
infection
c)
foot
d)
examine, see
13.
What does the suffix in the word hemostat mean?
a)
stationary
b)
treatment
c)
cut
d)
examine, see
14.
What suffix means round?
a)
sphere
b)
zyme
c)
septic
d)
pod
15.
What does the suffix septic mean?
a)
infection
b)
sick
c)
examine, see
d)
ferment
16.
What does the suffix in the word inscribe mean?
a)
write
b)
see
c)
make
d)
stationary
17.
What does the suffix in the word microscope mean?
a)
examine, see
b)
write
c)
tiny
d)
treat
18.
What does the suffix ptera mean?
a)
winged
b)
foot
c)
ancient
d)
round
19.
What suffix means foot?
a)
pod
b)
ptera
c)
tomy
d)
zyme
20.
What does the suffix mean in the word cytoplasm?
a)
growth material
b)
infection
c)
treatment
d)
cut
21.
What does zyme mean?
a)
ferment
b)
cut
c)
winged
d)
growth material
22.
Suffixes are found at what part of a word
a)
front
b)
middle
c)
root
d)
end
23.
What type of suffixes have we learned this year?
a)
scientific
b)
mathematic
c)
Latin
d)
Greek
24.
Which one means formative?
a)
-blast
b)
-ase
c)
-cyte
d)
- cision
25.
What does the suffix in the word pericardium mean?
a)
heart
b)
heat
c)
skin
d)
cut
26.
What does the suffix in the word monochrome mean?
a)
color
b)
cut
c)
guide, tube
d)
study of
27.
Suffix in the word pesticide means
a)
kill
b)
cut
c)
foot
d)
sugar
28.
Which one means spherical cell?
a)
coccus
b)
cyte
c)
sphere
d)
duct
29.
The suffix in the word leukocyte means
a)
cell
b)
place
c)
guide, tube
d)
blood
30.
Which suffix means skin?
a)
derm
b)
cardium
c)
duct
d)
blast
31.
What does the suffix in the word aquaduct mean?
a)
guide, tube
b)
water
c)
river
d)
flow
32.
Suffix in the word oxygen means?
a)
produced
b)
gas
c)
inflammatory
d)
specialist
33.
The suffix in the word sonogram means
a)
written, drawn
b)
recorded
c)
study of
d)
heart
34.
What suffix means drawn, recorded?
a)
graph
b)
itis
c)
formative
d)
pen
35.
What suffix means inflammatory?
a)
itis
b)
path
c)
blast
d)
phyte
36.
What suffix means specialist?
a)
logist
b)
gen
c)
duct
d)
cardium
37.
Which suffix means bearer, carrier?
a)
phore
b)
morph
c)
oid
d)
lysis
38.
What does the suffix phyte mean?
a)
possessed by a plant
b)
resembling
c)
loosen
d)
bearer, carrier
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