Unit 1 Roots

Question 1

mater

Answer 1

Latin root for mother

Question 2

Aqua

Answer 2

Latin root for water

Question 3

gen

Answer 3

Latin root for birth or race

Question 4

bio

Answer 4

greek root for life

Question 5

spec

Answer 5

latin root for see or look

Question 6

maternal

Answer 6

relating to motherhood, kind, caring, in a protective, motherly way

Question 7

maternity

Answer 7

the condition of being a mother

Question 8

alma mater

Answer 8

a school you graduated from, your “mother school”

Question 9

aquarium

Answer 9

water tank for fish

Question 10

Aquarius

Answer 10

sign of the Zodiac pictured as a man pouring water

Question 11

aquifer

Answer 11

bed rocks that hold ground water

Question 12

aquatic

Answer 12

growing or living in water

Question 13

generation

Answer 13

all the people born around the same time

Question 14

generate

Answer 14

to produce

Question 15

progeny

Answer 15

child or descendant

Question 16

biography

Answer 16

story of a person’s life

Question 17

autobiography

Answer 17

book that tell’s the story of someone’s life, written by that person

Question 18

biology

Answer 18

science of living things

Question 19

biosphere

Answer 19

part of the Earth where organisms ‘live’

Question 20

spectator

Answer 20

member of an audience

Question 21

spectacle

Answer 21

something to see

Question 22

inspect

Answer 22

to look carefully

Question 23

retrospect

Answer 23

looking back at things

Question 24

speculate

Answer 24

to look at and think about something from a different point of view