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Greek & Latin roots

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When you ask for someone's autograph, you want them to sign something. The root "graph" means ......

a)

to play

b)

to see

c)

to hear

d)

to write

2.

a piece of writing about a person's life written by someone else

a)

biologist

b)

biography

c)

neurobiology

d)

autobiography

3.

If a story is in "chronological" order, how is it organized?

a)

most important to least important

b)

sequence of time

c)

alphabetically

d)

randomly

4.

gragh

a)

to draw or write

b)

to look

c)

sound

5.

bio

a)

death

b)

life

c)

to carry

6.

When you put things in chronological order, you are making a time line. What does the root "chron" mean?

a)

bake

b)

laugh

c)

time

d)

see

7.

What is the greek root of the word "pedometer"?

a)

er

b)

me

c)

meter

d)

ped

8.

meter means....

a)

measure

b)

water

c)

mother

9.

tele

a)

to watch

b)

over a distance

c)

light

10.

tele

a)

angle

b)

far off, distant

c)

sound

d)

to shape

11.

dict

a)

written words

b)

light

c)

to carry

12.

A dictator is a person who__________________.

a)

says the opposite of something.

b)

rules a country with total authority, often in a cruel or brutal way.

c)

makes the decision by a jury.

d)

the act of speaking words that someone writes down.

13.

Your vision is very important for learning. What does the root "vis" mean?

a)

to hear

b)

to send

c)

to laugh

d)

to see

14.

The latin root "audi/aud" means

a)

hear

b)

a freaking nice car

c)

a big room

d)

star

15.

struct

a)

to break

b)

to speak

c)

to build

16.

Construction is a good career for many people. What does the root "struc" mean?

a)

to build

b)

to see

c)

to hear

d)

to sleep

17.
to bend around or curve
a)
circumflex
b)
deflect
c)
reflect
d)
retroflex
18.
to turn or move to one side; to bend; to swerve
a)
deflect
b)
flexor
c)
inflexible
d)
flexible
19.

When you flip a switch from on to off you do this to it.

a)

convert

b)

extrovert

c)

invert

d)

subversive

20.

People with this type of personality may be very quiet at school.

a)

introvert

b)

extrovert

c)

convert

d)

inverse