Sample Cloze activity
The names given to the elements give clues about their
properties, or after whom or where they were named.
Helium derives its name from the Greek word "helios"
meaning "Sun" because the first evidence of its existence
was obtained by analyzing the spectrum of sunlight. The
word "hydrogen" comes from the Greek words "hydro"
meaning water (as in hydroelectric, hydrolysis, etc.) and
"gene" meaning beginning (as in Genesis, gene, genetics).
Thus the word hydrogen means "water former", an
appropriate name for a substance that forms water when it
combusts.
(Text from Hands-on Chemistry)