THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCEMaking sense of words like

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

WHY DO WE CARE?How does it help me?

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• Helps with tests

• Helps when studying

• Reduced stress

Language of science• How do we make sense of words like

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

• The same way you eat steak• We need to break it down into smaller bites.

• We call those bites prefixes and suffixes

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Prefix• Grammar. an affix placed

before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning.*

• Something that you put in front of a word to change it.

Suffix• Grammar . an affix that

follows the element to which it is added.*

• Something that comes after a word to change it.

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Prefix Examples• Organize + re =

Reorganize• In + active = Inactive• Fore + warn = Forewarn

Suffix Examples• Kind + ly = Kindly• Dog + s = Dogs• Gentle + ness =

Gentleness

LANGUAGE OF SCIENCEUsing Prefixes and Suffixes to decode

Language of Science• We can take a complicated word and break it up into its

different parts• Look for prefixes and suffixes

• Once we know what the prefixes and suffixes mean we can guess at the meaning

Language of Science• We start with a word like

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis• Then we break it up into prefixes and suffixes

• Pneumono-ultra-micro-scopic-silico-volcano-coni-osis

• Pnuemono – Lung• Ultra – far side of, beyond• Micro – extremely small• Scopic – range of view• Silico – has to do with silicon• Volcano - Inflammation• Con - with• Osis – actions, conditions or states

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• Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

• An inflammation of the lungs caused by inhaling ultramicroscopic (really really small) silicon

LANGUAGE OF SCIENCEPutting it into practice

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Mesoderm

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Hyperthermic

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Hydrometer

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Benthoscope

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Neolith

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Hydrolysis

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Equate

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Electrophoresis

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Photograph

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Terraform

Language of Science References• Dictionary.com - Free Online English Dictionary. (n.d.).

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• Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved August 24, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

• The Biology Corner. (n.d.). The Biology Corner. Retrieved August 24, 2013, from http://www.biologycorner.com/