Fast & Furious Benchmark Unit 10: Science Roots and Prefix

Root: Mech

• medical

• machine

• gross

• keep apart

Root: Sep

• keep apart

• movable

• quick

• put together

root: Cycle

• to move in a straight line

• prevent

• to move in a circle

• run

Root: phys

• using chemicals

• body or natural

• food

• circle

Root: form

• to move in a circle

• shape

• chemical

• again

Prefix: re-

• life

• circle

• small

• again

prefix: bio-

• chemical

• earth

• life

• open

meaning of the word:

biochemical

• small circles

• chemistry of a living thing

• outside shape

Prefix: im-

• in/into

• out/out of

• life

• again

Meaning of the word:

recycle

• small circles

• to do the circle over again

• to separate on the inside