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Flashcards for learning new science Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A or And | Not or non |
| Aero | Needing oxygen or air |
| agri [agro] | Field, soil |
| Amphi, ambi | Both, doubly |
| Anti | Against |
| Aqua | Water |
| Archaeo | Primitive; ancient |
| Arthro | Joint |
| Astro, aster | Star, outer space |
| Audi audio | to here |
| auto | self |
| Bi | two, twice, double |
| bio | Life, living |
| cardi | heart |
| Cephal | Head |
| Chem | Dealing with chemicals |
| Chloro | green |
| Chrome | Color |
| Cide | Killer, kill killing |
| cyto | Cell |
| derm | skin |
| di | two double |
| eco | enviorment |
| ecto | outer external |
| endo | interal incide |
| entom | insect |
| epi | above |
| gastro | stomach |
| genesis | origin, beginning |
| geo | earth, soil, global |
| graph | record writting |
| hemo | blood |
| hebra | plants |
| hetero | different |
| hist | tissue |
| homo | alike, similar |
| Hydro | water |
| hyper | above |
| hypo | below |
| itchy | fish |
| intra | within, inside |
| itis | disease, inflammation |
| lateral | side |
| Iys | break down |
| Marco | large |
| meso | middle |
| meter | measurement |
| micro | small |
| mono | one, single |
| morph | shape, form |
| Multi | many |
| myc(o) | fungus |
| neur(o) | nerve |
| ology | the study of |
| ologist | a person who studies |
| onc | mass:tumor |
| ornith | bird |
| pale(o) | ancient |
| Path, pathy | Disease, suffering |
| philia | like |
| phobia | dislike, fear |
| photo | light |
| plasm | form |
| pod | foot |
| poly | many |
| proto | first |
| sub | lesser, below |
| synthesis | to make |
| tax(o) | arangement |
| therm | heat/temperature |
| toxico | poison |
| tri | three |
| troph | eat, consume |
| Zoo | animal |
| Agronomist | studies soil and crop preduction |
| Biochemist | Chemical makeup and process happening in living things |
| Botanist | plants |
| cytologist | cells for cancer or interaction |
| Ecologist | relation ship or organisms and their enviorment |
| Entomologist | insects |
| Epidemiologist | health in large population |
| Geneticst | Studies genes, DNA, or genetic |
| Geochemist | studies chemical makeup and chemical changes in the earth |
| Biologist | living things and how they interact |
| Geographer | earths land feactures and habitants |
| geologist | materal history and life, especially in rocks |
| Histologist | studies the human bodys tissue and cells under microscops |
| Hydrologist | water on earths surface and under ground |
| Paleontologist | fossils from past periods of time on earth from all life |
| pathologist | diseases and changes in the body from these diseases |
| physicist | energy and matter and how they work together |
| seismologist | studies earthquakes |
| volcanologist | studies volcanos |
| zoologist | studies animals |