Fac Word Root Quiz

What is true about the word "fiction" and "non-fiction?"

• fiction is a story you make up

  Non-fiction is a story you did not make up

• Non-fiction is a story you make up

  Fiction is a story you don't make up

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

An artificial sweetener would be

• A human-made sweetener like Splenda

• An extra-sweet sweetener

• A natural sweetener like sugar

• An organic sweetener

The Latin word for "hand" is "man-".

Using this and the root fac/fic/fact/fect, what word originally meant "to make by hand?"

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

Eew! I don't want that germ to _____ me! Please ___ the surface you just touched!

• affect, infect

• infect, disinfect

• effect, affect

• disinfect, infect

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

A place where older people can live with support from workers like nurses and cleaners is called an...

• assisted living faculty

• assisted living factory

• assisted living facility

• assisted living confectionary

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The kid's cough medicine phenylephrine was banned because it doesn't work. It's....

• efficient

• artificial

• ineffective

• satisfactory

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

If "bene" means "good," a "benefactor" is probably a person who...

• makes the community a better place

• causes trouble in the community.

• is unable to make things

• refuses to help anyone in need.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

A side effect of a medicine might...

• make you feel better

• make you sleepy or nauseous

• make the germ stronger

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

In math, a number which makes up a number evenly (leaving no remainders) is called a...

(example: 4 is a ____ of 8)

• Facility

• Faction

• Factual

• Factor

Tags

CCSS.4.OA.B.4

This item was made badly and doesn't work! It's....

• satisfactory

• defective

• infected

• effective