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BIO
BIO means LIFE
Bio is the third root to be featured on the Resource Room
found often in scientific contexts.
I. FOR EACH WORD:
1. Write the word
2. Write what it means
3. Draw a picture to go with it
4. Answer the question about it.
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word
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meaning and example
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what to draw
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question to answer
(you may draw your answer, too)
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biology |
study of life |
Three different things a biologist
would study |
What are 10 different living things
a biologist could learn about? Make them as different
as you can. |
biography |
story of someone's life |
A biography |
What would be a good title for an
biography? |
autobiography |
story of someone's own
life |
an autobiography |
Who are ten people who have had biographies
written about them? |
antibiotic |
medicine to kill bacteria
such as penicillin |
a bottle of antibiotics |
Why did more children die before
antibiotics were discovered? |
symbiosis |
when two different kinds
of living things have a close relationship -- such as
bacteria living in cows' stomachs and helping digest
grass or bees that get food from flowers and help spread
their pollen |
a symbiotic relationship |
What might the "sym" in
"symbiosis" mean? |
biosphere |
layer on the earth that
has living things |
the whole biosphere |
What are three very different places
on the biosphere that would have very different kinds
of life? |
biodegradable |
able to be broken down
(usually into harmless things) in nature -- tree stumps
and paper are biodegradable, plastic is not. |
Three things that are biodegradable |
What is a problem with things that
are *not* biodegradable? |
biopsy |
taking out and examining
living tissue from a living thing (such as taking a
piece of a tumor out to see if it is cancerous) |
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Who would do a biopsy? |
biohazard |
Something that could
harm living things (such as radioactive material or
poisonous chemicals) |
A label that would be put on a biohazard |
What are three things that could
be biohazards? |
bioluminescence |
Light made by living
things like lightning bugs or some fish |
a bioluminescent animal |
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Complete these sentences with the bio- word that fits. Be
sure review words learned in previous lessons.
1. My brother had a _______________________________ done
on the lump on his elbow.
2. A ___________________________ class is where you learn
about living things
3.You would have to write your own ______________________________.
4.Termites could not eat wood without other animals living
inside them that digest the wood; this is an example of ________________________.
5.An ________________________ will help cure some diseases
like strep throat.
6. Things that might spread an infection at a hospital have
a __________________________ label on them.
7. When fish glow in the dark it is called ______________________________
8. I want to read the ________________________ of the first
President of the United States.
9. The desert, the swamps and the rain forest are all part
of the big _____________________.
10. If you put something _________________________________
in the dump, eventually it will rot away.
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