Root Assessment #4: bio, viv

The roots vit and viv mean:

• bad, evil

• live, life

• to carry

The roots bio means ____________.

• good

• to transport

• life

Name the scientist who studies living things. 

• biographer

• vitamin

• biologist

If your life were once in danger from an illness, but you came out of it healthier than before, you would be considered a _____________________. 

• biopsy

• survivor

• vital

The layer of Earth in which we live with all other living things is known as the ____________________.

• vivisection

• biosphere

• macrobiotic diet

When a doctor removes a small piece of tissue from a living person to investigate it under the microscope, the doctor is performing a ____________________.

• biopsy

• dissection

• vitamin

What got its name because people believed that if you took it, you might live a longer and healthier life? 

• vitamin

• antibiotic

• biosphere

What kind of book are you reading if it’s about a Roman emperor, and it was written by a historical researcher named Keith Noslo? 

• autobiography

• biography

• biology

If you are trying to bring your plant back to life by moving it into the sunshine, what are you hoping to do to it? 

• revive

• survive

A mutually beneficial relationship between different groups is known as ____________________. The food chain in any environment explains how it works. 

• symbiosis

• neurobiology