BIOLOGY
ROOT
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AEROAMPHIBIARTH
ASTER
AUTO
BI
BIO
CARPCAUD
CENTI
CEPHA
CHLORO
CHONDRO
CHRYS
COEL, COELO
CYAN
CYTO
DERM
DI
ECTERYTHRO
GEN
GYN
HEMO
HEMI
HEMO
HEPAT
HERB
HETERO
HOMO
HYDRO
HYPER
HYPO
HYPER
ICHTHY
INTER
ISO
IT IS
KILO
LEPI
LEPTO
LYSIS
MACRO
MESO
META
MILLI
MYCO
OCUL
SOURCE
A
AER
AMPHI
ARTHRON
ASTRAUTOS
BIS
BIOS
CAUDA
CENTUM
CEPHALE
CHLORO
CHONDROS
CHRYSOS
KOILOS
CYANOS
CYTO
DERMA
DIS
ERYTHROS
GENOS
GYNE
HEM
HEMI
HAIMA
HETEROS
HOMOIS
HYDOR
HYPER
HYPO
HYPER
ICH
INTER
ISOS
ITIS
LEPIS
LEPTOS
LYS
MAKROS
MESO
META
MEANING OR ASSOCIATION
SOME EXAMPLES
WITHOUT OR NOT
ASEXUAL, ASYMETRICAL
AIR
AEROBIC
LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE
AMPHIBIAN
JOINT
ARTHROPOD
STAR
ASTEROID
SELF
AUTO-OXIDATION, AUTOLYSIS
TWICE, DOUBLE
BISULFATE
LIFE, LIVING
BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY
FRUIT
PERICARP
TAIL
CAUDAL FIN (FISH)
HUNDRED
CENTIMETER
HEAD
CEPHALIC
GREEN
CHLOROPLAST
CARTILAGE
CHONDROBLAST
GOLDEN-YELLOW
CHRYSOBERYL, CHRYSANTHEMUM
HOLLOW, CAVITY
COELOBLAST, COELUM
DEEP BLUE
CYANIDE, HEMOCYANIN
CELL
CYTOLOGY
SKIN
DERMATITIS
TWICE, DOUBLE
DISACCARADE
OUTSIDE, WITHOUT
ECTODERM
RED
ERYTHRODEXTRIN
BIRTH, BEGINNING
GENESIS, OOGENESIS
WOMAN
GYNDOICECIOUS, POLYGAMY
BLOOD
HEMOLYSIS
A HALF
HEMIHYDRATE
BLOOD
HEMOCYANIN
LIVER
HEPATITIS
GRASS
HERBARIUM
OTHER, DIFFERENT
HETEROCYCLIC
SAME
HOMOCERCA; HOMOLOGOUS
WATER
HYDRATE, HYDROGEN
EXCESSIVE
HYPERTHYROIDISM
UNDER, LOWER
HYPOCHLOROUS, THYROID
ABOVE
HYPERLASIA, HYPERTHYROIDISM
FISH
ICHTHYICHES
BETWEEN
INTERNODE
SIMILAR
ISOTONIC
INFLAMATION
ARTHRITIS
THOUSAND
KILOMETER
SCALE
LEPIDOPETRA
SLENDER
LEPTOPHYLLUS
DECOMPOSE
LYSOSOME, LSYSIS
LARGE
MACROMOLECULE
MIDDLE
MESOGLEA, METAPHASE
BETWEEN
METAPHASE
THOUSANDTH
MILLIMETER
FUNGUS, THREADLIKE
MYCELUIM
EYE
OCULAR
OSTIPHILPHOBIA
PHYTE
POLY
PSEUDO
PTER
SEPTIC
PHYT
POLY
PSEUDES
PTERYX
SPERM
SYMTELE
THERMTROPH-
SPERMA
ZYGO
ZYGON
TELEOS
BONE
OSTEOPOROSIS
LOVING, FOND OF HYDROPHILIC
EXCESSIVE FEAR OF HYDROPHOBIC
PLANT
GAMETOPHYTE
MANY, SEVERAL
POLYANDRY
FALSE, DECEPTIVE PSEUDOPOD
WING
PTERIDOPHYTE
PUTREFACTION,
ASPETIC
INFECTION
SEED
SPERMATOCYTE
TOGETHER
SYMBIOTIC
COMPLETE
TELOPHASE
HEAT
THERMOSTATIC
ONE WHO FEEDS,
AUTOTROPH
WELL FED
YOKE
ZYGOTE
CHEMISTRY VOCABULARY
Word
Alloy
Ambient Temperature
Boiling vs. Evaporating
Cease to Evaporate
Compress
Condensation
Decreasing order
Diatomic vs. Monatomic
Diffusion vs. Effusion
Direct vs. Inverse Relationship
Distinctive Color
Electronic Probe
Electrostatic Forces
Emit Light
Extrapolate
Formula Units
Increasing Order
Intermolecular vs. Intramolecular Forces
Interpolate
Lattice Structure
Macromolecules- Subunits
Polar vs. Non-Polar
Ppm
Precipitate
Reactants vs. Products
Reagent
Repulsion
Spectra
Vacuum
Yield
Definition
Mixture of two or more metals.
Temperature of your surroundings, room temperature.
Boiling and evaporating are both changes from liquid to gas state but
evaporating happens at many temperatures and only on the surface of the
liquid. Boiling happens only at the boiling temperature within the body of the
liquid.
Stops changing from liquid state to gas state on the surface of a liquid.
If you squeeze a pillow made of foam, you compress it.
Molecules change from gas to liquid.
Increasing order: put items in order from the largest value to the smallest
value.
Two atoms will make a diatomic molecule; one molecule makes a monatomic
molecule.
Diffusion is movement of one material through another while effusion is when
a gas escapes through a tiny opening.
Direct: when one value goes up, so will the other one; indirect, when one value
goes up, the other one goes down.
Main color; The distinctive color of a banana is yellow.
Device that measures data, i.e. temperature, pH, pressure.
Attraction between cations (positive ions) and anions (negative ions).
To release or give off. A combustion reaction emits light and heat.
Extend and estimate best fit line.
Ionic bonded “molecule”.
Increasing order; put items in order from smallest value to highest value.
Intermolecular is attractions between molecules; intramolecular is bonding
between atoms like covalent or ionic bonds.
Best fit line
Crystal pattern made from ionic compounds.
Very large molecules are made from smaller pieces. Proteins are
macromolecules made from amino acid subunits.
Polar bonds have uneven charge, nonpolar charges are equal.
Parts per million: measure of concentration. Multiple values to make
denominator 1,000,000 parts.
Solid formed from solutions, will settle as a powder.
Reactants are the starting material, products are what is formed. Reactants
make products!
Another name for a chemical used in a reaction.
Separation caused by same charges. You cannot put like ends of a magnet
together because of repulsion.
Series of colors given off by energizing elements.
Empty space, absence of matter
To produce.
PHYSICS VOCABULARY
Motion & Forces
Word
Acceleration
Average Velocity
Centripetal Acceleration
Centripetal Force
Density
Displacement
Equilibrium
Force
Friction
Gravity
Inertia
Mass
Normal Force
Projectile
Resultant
Speed
Vector
Weight
Energy & Momentum
Word
Elastic Collision
Elastic Potential Energy
Gravitational Potential Energy
Impulse
Inelastic Collisions
Kinetic Energy
Momentum
Power
Work
Definition
The rate at which the velocity changes over time; an object accelerates if
its speed, direction, or both change.
The total displacement divided by the time interval during which the
displacement.
An acceleration directed to the center of a circle.
The necessary net force exerted perpendicular to the tangential velocity
to cause centripetal acceleration.
The concentration of matter of an object, measured as the mass per unit
volume of a substance.
The change in position of an object
The state in which the net force on an object is zero.
An action exerted on an object which may change the object’s state of
rest or motion; force has magnitude and direction.
A non-conservative force that resists the relative motion of surfaces in
contact with each other.
Attractive force directly proportional to the product of the masses of and
inversely proportional to the distance between two objects.
The tendency of an object to resist being moved or, if the object is
moving, to resist a change in speed or direction.
The property of matter (measured in kilograms in the metric system)
which determines its inertia and the gravitational forces it exerts.
A force that acts on a surface in a direction perpendicular to the surface.
An object with independent vertical and horizontal motion that moves
through the air only under the force of gravity after an initial thrust.
A vector that represents the sum of two or more vectors.
Distance traveled divided by the time.
A physical quantity that has both magnitude and direction.
A measure of the gravitational force exerted on an object; its value can
change with the location of the object in the universe.
Definition
A collision in which the total momentum and total kinetic energy are
conserved.
The energy available for use when an elastic body returns to its original
configuration.
The potential energy stored in the gravitational fiends of interacting
bodies.
The product of the force and time over which the force acts on an object.
A collision in which total momentum is conserved, but total kinetic
energy decreases.
The energy of an object that is due to the object’s motion.
A quantity defined as the product of the mass and velocity of an object.
A quantity that measures the rate at which work is done or energy is
transformed.
The product of the component of a force along the direction of
displacement and the magnitude of the displacement.
Waves
Word
Diffraction
Doppler Effect
Definition
A change in the direction of a wave when the wave encounters an
obstacle, and opening, or an edge.
An observed change in the frequency when there is relative motion
between the source of waves and an observer.
Electromagnetic Wave
Frequency
Interference
Longitudinal Wave
Mechanical Wave
Period
Reflection
Refraction
Superposition Principle
Transverse Wave
Wavelength
Heat and Thermodynamics
Word
Entropy
Heat Engine
Work
Electricity and Magnetism
Word
Electric Current
Electric Field
Electric Potential
Magnetic Field
Parallel Circuit
Plasma
Resistance
Series Circuit
Transistor
A wave that consists of oscillating electric and magnetic fields, which
radiate outward from the source at the speed of light.
The number of cycles or vibrations per unit time; also the number of
waves produced per unit of time.
Constructive interference is a superposition of two or more waves in
which individual displacements on the same side of the equilibrium
position are added together to form the resultant wave. Destructive
interference is a superposition of two or more waves in which individual
displacements on opposite sides of the equilibrium, position are added
together to form the resultant wave.
A wave whose particles vibrate parallel to the direction the wave is
traveling.
A wave that requires a medium through which to travel.
The time that it takes a complete cycle or wave oscillation to occur.
The turning back of an electromagnetic wave at a surface.
The bending of a wavefront as the wavefront passes between two
substances in which the speed of the wave differs.
The displacement of any point due to the superposition of waves is equal
to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that point.
A wave whose particles vibrate perpendicularly to the direction the wave
is traveling.
The distance between two adjacent similar points of a wave, such as
from crest to crest or from trough to trough.
Definition
A measure of the randomness or disorder of system.
A device that uses heat to do mechanical work.
The process of changing the energy of a system by means of forces.
Definition
The rate at which charges pass through a given area.
A region where an electric force on a test charge can be detected.
The work that must be performed against electric forces to move a
charge from a reference point to the point in question divided by the
charge.
A region where a magnetic force can be detected.
A circuit with several current paths, whose total current equals the sum
of the currents in its branches.
The gas-like state of matter made up of positively charged ions or
negatively charged electrons or a mixture of them.
The opposition presented to electric current by a material or device.
A circuit in which current passes through each device, one after another.
A semiconductor device that can amplify current and that is used in
amplifiers, oscillators, and switches.
EARTH SCIENCE
WORD PART OR ROOT
MEANING
APPLICATION
a-
Not,without
Abiotic
Astr-, aster-
Star
Astronomy
Bar-, baro-
Weight, pressure
Barometer
Batho-, bathy-
Depth
Batholiths, bathysphere
Circum-
Around
Circum-Pacific, circumpolar
-cline
Lean, slope
Anticline, syncline
-duct-
To lead, draw
Conduction
Eco-
Environment
Ecology, ecosystem
Epi-
On
Epicenter
Ex-, exo-
Out, outside of
Exosphere, exfoliation, extrusion
Geo-
Earth
Geode, geology, geomagnetic
-graph
Write, writing
Seismograph
Hydro-
Water
Hydrosphere
Hypo-
Under
Hypothesis
Iso-
Equal
Isoscope, isostasy, isotope
-lith, -lithic
Stone
Neolithic, regolith
-log-
Study
Ecology, geology, meteorology
Magn-
Great, large
Magnitude
Mar-
Sea
Marine
Meta-
Among, change
Metamorphic, metamorphism
-meter
To measure
Thermometer, spectrometer
Micro-
Small
Microquake
-morph, -morphic
Form, shape
Metamorphic
Nebula-
Mist, cloud
Neolithic
Paleo-
Old
Paleontology, Paleozoic
Ped-, pedo-
Ground, soil
Pediment
Per-
Through
Permeable
Peri-
Around
Perigee, perihelion
Seism-, seismo-
Shake, earthquake
Seismic, seismograph
Sol-
Sun
Solar, solstice
Spectro-
Look at, examine
Spectroscope, spectrum
-sphere
Ball, globe
Geosphere, lithosphere
Strati-, strato-
Spread, layer
Stratification, stratovolcano
terra-
Earth, land
Terracing, terrane
Thermo-
Heat
Thermosphere, thermometer
Top-, topo-
Place
Topographic
Trop-, tropo-
Turn, respond to
Tropopause, troposphere
ANATOMY VOCABULARY
Word
Definition
Acne
Sebaceous gland inflammation cause by an accumulation of secretions.
Arthritis
Rheumatic diseases that affect synovial joints. Arthritis always involves damage to the articular cartilages,
but the specific cause can vary.
Athsma
An acute repository disorder characterized by unusually sensitive, irritated conducting airways.
Benign Tumor
A mass or swelling in which the cells usually remain within a connective tissue capsule, rarely life
threatening.
Biopsy
The removal and examination of tissue from the bodey for the diagnosis of disease.
Cancer
An illness characterized by gene mutations leading to the formation of malignant tumors and metastatis.
Carcinogen
An environmental factor that stimulates the conversion of a normal cell to a cancer cell.
CAT SCAN
Computerized axial tomography: an imaging technique that uses X-rays to reconstruct the body’s threedimensional structure.
Cholesterol
A steroid and an important component of cellular membranes; in high concentrations it increases the risk
of heart disease.
Disease
A malfunction of organs or organ systems resulting from a failure in homeostatic regulation.
Fracture
A crack or break in a bone.
Gallstones
Deposits of minerals, bile salts, and cholesterol that form if bile becomes too concentrated.
Genetic Engineering
The research on and techniques for changing the genetic makeup (DNA ) of an organism.
Hernia
A condition involving an organ or a body part that protrudes through an abnormal opening in the wall of a
body cavity.
Histology
The study of tissues.
Malignant Tumor
A mass or swelling in which the cells no longer respond to normal control mechanisms but divide rapidly
and spread.
Pnemonia
A respiratory disorder characterized by fluid leakage into the alveoli and/or swelling and constriction of
the respiratory bronchioles.
Regeneration
The repair of injured tissues following inflammation.
Tendinitis
Inflammation of the connective tissue surrounding a tendon.
Tracheostomy
The insertion of a tube directly into the trachea to bypass a blocked or damaged larynx.
Tumor (neoplasm)
A mass or swelling produced by abnormal cell growth and division.
Ulcer
A localized shrededing of an epithelium.
Varicose Veins
Sagging, swollen veins distorted by gravity and by the failure of the venous valves.