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Word Roots
Word Roots 23&24
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Centr- | center |
| Chron- | time |
| Gen- | cause,birth,race,produce |
| Geo- | earth,ground |
| Graph- | write,written |
| therm- | heat |
| -al | like,related to;an action or process |
| -er | one who,that which |
| -ic | like, related to |
| -logy | study of,science |
| -ous | having the quality |
| -y | state of,quality,act; body,group |
| geochrony | system of time divisions used in the study of the earth |
| geology | study of the earth's structure |
| geocentric | related to the earth's;earth-centered |
| geothermal | related to the heat of the earth's interior |
| geogenous | growing on or in the ground |
| geographer | one who writes about the earth's features |
| crac | government,rule |
| derm | skin |
| meso* | middle |
| phil | love,loving |
| somat | body |
| therm | heat |
| mesodermic | related to the middle layer of skin (Biology) |
| mesocracy | government by the middle classes |
| mesotherm | plant that requires a moderate degree of heat |
| mesophilic | thriving in a moderate degree of the heat |
| mesosomatic | related to the middle region of the body of various inverebrates(Zoology) |