What does biology mean?
Word: Biology
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Biology means the scientific study of living things, such as plants, animals and the human body.
How do you spell biology?
Syllables: bi - ol - o - gy
Tricky part: The g near the end makes a soft j sound, but it is still a g. Students who spell by sound write biolojy.
Watch out for: biolojy, biolodgy
Memory tip: The g in biology sounds like j, just as it does in giraffe and magic, so keep the soft g and never swap it for a j.
Biology in a sentence
Example 1: Maria's favourite subject is biology because she loves plants and animals.
Example 2: In biology class we looked at onion skin under a microscope.
Example 3: Marine biology is the study of life in the sea.
Fun Fact
The word biology only came into use around 1800. Before that, people who studied plants and animals called their subject natural history.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
oyoligb
a) oblige
b) boldly
c) biology
d) globally
Show answer
c) biology. Oblige needs an e, globally an a and boldly a d, so only biology fits these seven letters.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) biology
b) experimant
c) laboratery
d) specimin
Show answer
a) biology. Specimen has an e after the m, laboratory has ory and experiment has ment, so biology is the one spelt right.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
b_ol_gy
a) i,a
b) e,o
c) e,a
d) i,o
Show answer
d) i,o. Bio means life, as in biography, and the second o belongs to the study ending ology.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
In biology we learnt that a frog lays its eggs in water and the tadpoles hach a few days later.
a) biology
b) tadpoles
c) frog
d) hach
Show answer
d) hach. Hatch has a t before the ch, the same as catch and match.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In a biology lesson, you would most likely learn ____.
a) how a seed grows into a plant
b) how a magnet attracts iron
c) how a bridge carries a load
d) how rain clouds form
Show answer
a) how a seed grows into a plant
2. A biologist is someone who ____.
a) designs tall buildings
b) repairs old engines
c) maps rivers and mountains
d) studies living things
Show answer
d) studies living things
