j. paul truluck middle school science department root words and affixes

J. Paul Truluck Middle SchoolScience Department

Root words and Affixes

Happy New Year!Our New Year’s resolution is for everyone to be a Word

Attack Wizard!

The Drawing from the last 2010 Word Attack Wizards list will be tomorrow

morning!

What could

you win?

Challenges & New Roots & Affixes• Today (01/04/10) – New #8 Word Attack Lesson.

• Tuesday (01/11/10) – Ten question challenge on past 32 roots and affixes. This includes the new #8 lesson words.

Never stamp an expiration date on learning! Learn for

life!

Get your name on the Word Attack Wizards List! Score 90 or

Above.

Self Practice• Want your name on the list in the hall and a chance

at a prize?• Need more practice?• Visit your teacher’s webpage!• The review for all 32 words will be posted

Wednesday. Learning these makes figuring out

new vocabulary easier in all my

classes!

All it takes is practice!

Photo-light

Examples• Photosphere – The lowest visible layer of a star.• Photosynthesis – The process by which plants

store light energy.- Our view of the sun’s photosphere is blocked during a

solar eclipse.

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Luna-

Moon

Example: Lunar – “of the moon”

Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man to step foot on the lunar surface on July 16, 1969.

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Mentally ill people used to be called “lunatics”

because people thought that moon made people

crazy.

Equal or Equi-The same as, or balanced

Examples• Equinox – (nox = night) When the Earth

receives the same amount of daytime as nighttime.

There is a Spring Equinox and a Fall Equinox. Why does it make sense that there is no Winter or Summer Equinox? What is different in the Winter and Summer?

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Equal or Equi-The same as, or balanced

Examples• Equilibrium – when an object is at rest because the

forces are equal on all sides.• Chemical equilibrium – when a reaction occurs

equally both ways. The reactants & products are equal.- The golf ball was at equilibrium on the golf tee until it was hit by

the golf club. What were the equal forces? What made them unequal?

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EquilibriumChallenge

Challenge• Click on the video

clip and watch this amazing basketball shot. When is the ball at equilibrium and when is it NOT at equilibrium?

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Match the root word or affix to it’s meaning:

photo

luna

bio

Equal or equi

-graph

to write or draw

life

light

moon

balanced

An organism that makes it’s own food by storing light energy…

A. photoautotrophB. hydroautographC. thermotrophD. photoheterotroph

Apollo was the Greek god of light and music. He drove a chariot pulling the sun across the sky. Apollo 11 was the name of the first manned mission to the moon. Apollo’s sister was named Artemis but was also had another name. She was the goddess of the moon and the hunt. What do you think her other name might be?

A. AthenaB. HeraC. LunaD. Mars

Why do you think they didn’t name

the moon missions after Artemis

instead of Apollo? Might be a good question to ask

the NASA people when you see them later this

month.

What kind of triangle is pictured below?

A. ScaleneB. IsoscelesC. EquilateralD. Equilibrium

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