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Greek and Latin Roots

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
One who walks is a _____.
a)
location
b)
recognizable
c)
signature
d)
pedestrian
2.
Which word means the underlying inner framework of a building or system?
a)
structure
b)
thermostat
c)
infrastructure
d)
invisible
3.
What is communication between two or more people or things?
a)
graphite
b)
autograph
c)
interaction
d)
unicycle
4.
Which word means relating to the sense of touch?
a)
recycle
b)
intact
c)
graphite
d)
tactile
5.
Which words means the state or condition that exists when two people touch, see, or communicate with each other?
a)
cyclone
b)
contact
c)
graphite
d)
memorial
6.
What is something that you do?
a)
graphite
b)
autograph
c)
memory
d)
activity
7.
What is the term for someone who studies handwriting?
a)
graphologist
b)
interaction
c)
graphite
d)
autograph
8.
Which word means to use things again?
a)
remember
b)
react
c)
cyclone
d)
recycle
9.
Which term is a structure that honors the memory of a person or event?
a)
unicycle
b)
memorial
c)
autograph
d)
memory
10.
Lead that is used in pencils is called graphite.
a)
True
b)
False
11.
Something that is learned and kept in the mind, or something that is remembered is a memory.
a)
True
b)
False
12.
Your written name or your signature is your memorial.
a)
True
b)
False
13.
To retain or to recall knowledge is to contact.
a)
True
b)
False
14.
A cycle with one wheel, typically used by acrobats is a unicycle.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
A storm with circling winds is a cyclone.
a)
True
b)
False
16.
Which root means light?
a)
therm
b)
photo
c)
struct
d)
thermos
17.
Which root means to see?
a)
vision
b)
therm
c)
aud
d)
vis
18.
What is another word for building?
a)
structure
b)
photocopy
c)
invisible
d)
struct
19.
Which root means heat?
a)
struct
b)
thermos
c)
therm
d)
photo
20.
What is a copy of a document that is made with a special machine?
a)
photocopy
b)
auditorium
c)
Photosynthesis
d)
photogenic
21.
Which root means to hear or listen?
a)
audible
b)
vis
c)
invisible
d)
aud
22.
True or False: Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy is photogenic.
a)
True
b)
False
23.
True or False: If something cannot be seen, it is invisible.
a)
True
b)
False
24.
True or False: If something is NOT able to be heard, it is audible.
a)
True
b)
False
25.
True or False: The root for build is structure.
a)
True
b)
False
26.
True or False: The act or process of building something is to deconstruct.
a)
True
b)
False
27.
True or False: The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting is an audience.
a)
True
b)
False
28.
To identify something or someone that you know is to _____ it/them.
a)
recognize
b)
signature
c)
incognito
d)
pedestrian
29.
Those who were born in a certain place are ____.
a)
natural
b)
natives
c)
nativity
d)
biped
30.
A lever that is moved with one's foot is a _____.
a)
signal
b)
location
c)
pedal
d)
local
31.
One who walks on two feet is a _____.
a)
triped
b)
biped
c)
pedal
d)
pediatric
32.
A ______ is a sign used to communicate.
a)
local
b)
location
c)
signature
d)
signal
33.
Something that is in the area, or nearby is _______.
a)
local
b)
cognition
c)
significant
d)
signal
34.
Something that is moved or forced out of the joint it fits in is dislocated.
a)
True
b)
False
35.
Something that is a natural ability, or something that you are born with can be described as a signal.
a)
True
b)
False
36.
Something that is important or remarkable is significant.
a)
True
b)
False
37.
Your personal mark is your signature.
a)
True
b)
False
38.
Something that is hidden so that your true identity is not known means to recognize.
a)
True
b)
False
39.
Your address or place is your location.
a)
True
b)
False
40.
The root sign means foot.
a)
True
b)
False
41.
What does the root nat mean?
a)
place
b)
to learn
c)
foot
d)
born
42.
Which root means water?
a)
spec
b)
bio
c)
mater/matr
d)
aqua
43.
Which root means mother?
a)
alma mater
b)
mater/matr
c)
maternity
d)
maternal
44.
Which root means race, kind, or birth?
a)
gen
b)
progeny
c)
spec
d)
generate
45.
Which one of these is a story of a person's life written by that person?
a)
autobiography
b)
biology
c)
maternity
d)
alma mater
46.
A person who watches an activity, or an onlooker, is a:
a)
spectator
b)
spectacle
c)
generation
d)
inspector
47.
A group of people born around the same time is a spectacle.
a)
True
b)
False
48.
The blue-green color of water is aquamarine.
a)
True
b)
False
49.
The school that you graduated from is your alma mater.
a)
True
b)
False
50.
A glass bowl in which fish or other aquatic animals live is an aqualung.
a)
True
b)
False
51.
The study of life is biology.
a)
True
b)
False