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word roots pg.23&24
words and roots
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| crat | government, rule |
| derm | skin |
| meso* | middle |
| phil | love,loving |
| somat | body |
| therm | heat |
| -ic | like, related to |
| -y | state of, quality, act; body, group |
| centr | center |
| chron | time |
| gen | cause, birth, race, produce |
| geo | earth, ground |
| graph | write, written |
| -ous | having the quality of |
| -logy | study of, science |
| -er | one who |
| -al | like, related to, prosess |
| geochrony | system of the divions used in the study of the earth |
| geology | study of earth's structure |
| geometeric | related to the earth's center |
| geothermal | related to the heat of earth's interior |
| geogenous | growing on or in the ground |
| geographer | one who writes about the earth's features |
| mesodermic | related to the middle layer of skin |
| mesocracy | government by the middle class |
| mesotherm | plant that requires a moderate degree of heat (botany) |
| mesophilic | thriving in a moderate environment |
| mesosomatic | related to the middle region of the body of various invertebrates (zoology) |