Knowing Roots
This root means "both"
a) -gram
b) -graph
c) ambi- or amphi-
c) ambi- or amphi-
The root "rupt-" can means...
a) fire
b) sound
c) break
c) break
Which definition belongs to the root "dem-" as in the word demographic?
a) skin
b) people
c) measure
b) people
Which definition belongs to the root "micro-" as in the term microscope?
a) small
b) measure
c) a thousandth of
a) small
Which definition belongs to the root(s) "proto-" or "prim-"?
a) foot
b) first, earliest
c) picture
b) first, earliest
The root "cent" means which of the following?
a) hundred
b) thousand
c) large
a) hundred
Which root refers to "under, below"?
a) sub-
b) sym-
c) syn
a) sub-
Which root belongs to the definition "skin" as in the word dermatology?
a) corp-
b) dem-
c) derm-
c) derm-
The root "syn-" means...
a) build
b) create, put together
c) plant
b) create, put together
Which root means "joint" as in your knee or ankle joint?
a) arthro-
b) gastro-
c) gene-
a) arthro-
Choose the root that means "out or away"...
a) mono-
b) e- or ex-
c) cosmo-
b) e- or ex-
The root that refers to "heat" is which of the following?
a) terra-
b) pyro-
c) therm-
c) therm-
Which definition belongs to the root(s) "multi-" or "poly-"?
a) thousand
b) large
c) many
c) many
The root "struct-" means...
a) create
b) break
c) build
c) build
Which definition belongs to the root "gen-" or "gene-"?
a) people
b) birth, origin
c) body
b) birth, origin
Which root means "environment"?
a) eco-
b) uni-
c) cosmo-
a) eco-
Which root(s) refers to "one"?
a) milli-
b) poly-
c) mono- or uni-
c) mono- or uni-
Which definition belongs to the root "super-"?
a) above, over
b) many
c) large
a) above, over
The root "chem-" belongs to which definition?
a) color
b) birth, origin
c) chemicals
c) chemicals
The root that refers to "Earth" is which of the following?
a) helio-
b) cosmo-
c) geo-
c) geo-
Which root means "among, between"?
a) meta-
b) inter-
c) nano-
b) inter-
Which root(s) refers to "middle"?
a) meta-
b) medi- or meso-
c) stell-
b) medi- or meso-
Which definition belongs to the root "sym-" as in the term symbiosis?
a) many
b) together
c) people
b) together
The root "milli-" belongs to which definition?
a) measure
b) a thousandth of
c) a billionth of
b) a thousandth of
Which definition refers to the root "kilo-"?
a) a thousandth of
b) billion
c) thousand
c) thousand