Category 1:
Number Power
Category 2:
The "Where & When" Prefixes
Category 3:
Nature & Writing
Category 4:
Size Matters
Category 5:
Word Detective (Mix & Match)
100

If a tricycle has three wheels, how many wheels does a bicycle have?

What is two?

100

This prefix means "under." It's the first part of the word for a path that goes under the ground.

What is sub (subway)?

100

This root means "life." It is the first part of a book written about a real person.


What is bio (biography)?

100

This prefix means "small." You need this kind of camera to see things that are invisible to the eye.


What is micro?

100

If you rewrite a story, are you writing it before, again, or not at all?

What is again?

200

A unicorn is famous for having exactly this many horns.

What is one?

200

This prefix means "before." You do this to a test to make sure you are ready.

What is pre (prepare)?

200

This root means "water." It is the name of the color that looks like a blue-green ocean.



What is aqua?

200

This prefix means "large." It is the opposite of "micro."



What is macro?

200

This word uses a root meaning "carry." It describes a computer you can easily carry in your backpack.



What is portable?

300

This prefix means "one," and it is used in the word monorail (a train that runs on one track).

What is mono?

300

If you need to do your homework a second time, you have to __do it.


What is re?

300

This root means "to write." It is found in the word "para**____**."



What is graph?

300

A submarine travels "under" this.



What is the water (or the sea)?

300

Use a prefix and a root: This is a "far-writer" machine used long ago to send messages.



What is a telegraph?

400

If a "pod" is a stand, this "three-legged" stand is often used to hold a camera.

What is a tripod?

400

This prefix means "far away." You use a ____scope to see stars that are light-years away.


What is tele (telescope)?

400

If you move a fish from a lake to a tank, you are putting it in an ____rium.



What is aqua?

400

Scientists use a ____chip to put a tiny computer inside a phone.



What is micro?

400

This word means "not happy."

What is unhappy?

500

To unite means to bring people together to act as how many groups?

What is one?

500

This prefix means "not." If your room is messy, it is ____tidy.


What is un?

500

This root means "to carry." It is found in the word "air**____**," a place where planes carry people.



What is port?

500

If a giant giant cloud is very, very large, a scientist might call it a ____cloud.



What is macro?

500

 If you preheat an oven, are you heating it before or after you put the food in?



What is before?