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Spell Bee Word: Axis


What does axis mean?

Word: Axis

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Axis means an imaginary line through the middle of something that turns around it, such as the Earth. On a graph, an axis is one of the two main lines.

How do you spell axis?

Syllables: ax - is

Tricky part: The word ends in a single s; axiss, with two, is the slip to avoid.

Watch out for: axiss, axys

Memory tip: The Earth's axis is one thin line, so give the word one thin s at the end.

Axis in a sentence

Example 1: The Earth spins on its axis and gives us day and night.

Example 2: Mark the months along the bottom axis of the bar graph.

Example 3: A spinning top turns round and round on its axis.

Fun Fact

Earth's axis is tilted by about 23.5 degrees. This tilt is what gives us summer and winter.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

xsai

a) axis
b) exit
c) next
d) taxi

Show answer

a) axis. With just x, s, a and i to use, there is no t for taxi and no e for exit or next.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) orbbit
b) equater
c) rotasion
d) axis

Show answer

d) axis. Axis is right; rotation ends in tion, equator ends in or, and orbit has one b.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A globe in our classroom turns on a tilted aksis fixed to a metal stand.

a) metal
b) aksis
c) globe
d) tilted

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b) aksis. The ks sound in axis is written with one letter, x.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these spins on an axis?

a) a parked bicycle
b) a closed book
c) a merry-go-round
d) a stone on a path

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c) a merry-go-round

2. The Earth's axis runs between ____.

a) the Equator and the Tropics
b) the North and South Poles
c) the Sun and the Moon
d) the east and west coasts

Show answer

b) the North and South Poles

Associated Words

More Class 4 Summer Spell Bee words starting with a: accomplish, archery, altogether, agency, anxious, amazing

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conversation, editor, greenhouse, length, password, represent, subtitle, waistcoat

Next steps

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