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WHAT ON EARTH DO THEY MEAN?? Scientists all over the world have been naming things for hundreds of years. The names we use in English sometimes contain words or parts of words from their languages. If you know the meanings of some these words, or parts of words, you can often figure out the meaning of a scientific term. Here are the meanings of some of the parts: geo – earth, ground pae -, paleo – dealing with ancient forms astro – stars and outer space oceano – oceans meteoro- weather -graphy recording descriptions about rego - blanket bio - living things atmos - air hydro- water archeo – ancient, primitive agro – fields and soil topo - surfaces of places -logy study of, science of -nomy dealing with knowledge about mono- one, alone -litho, litho- rock -sphere area of, field of Use the word parts above to define the terms below. One has been done for you. 1. astronomy dealing with knowledge about stars and outer space 2. oceanography ____________________________________________________________ 3. geology _________________________________________________________________ 4. meteorology ______________________________________________________________ 5. agronomy _______________________________________________________________ 6. hydrology ________________________________________________________________ 7. archaeology ______________________________________________________________ 8. topography ______________________________________________________________ 9. geography _______________________________________________________________ 10. monolith ________________________________________________________________ 11. regolith _________________________________________________________________ 12. lithosphere ______________________________________________________________ 13. hydrosphere ____________________________________________________________ 14. atmosphere _____________________________________________________________ 15. biosphere _______________________________________________________________