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Spell Bee Word: Carbon


What does carbon mean?

Word: Carbon

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Carbon means a chemical element that is found in every living thing. Coal and charcoal are made mostly of carbon.

How do you spell carbon?

Syllables: car - bon

Tricky part: It ends in bon, with an o, even though the last part is said very weakly. It starts with a c, not a k.

Watch out for: carben, karbon, carbun

Memory tip: Link carbon with a bonfire: a bonfire burns wood, burnt wood leaves carbon behind, and both words have bon in them.

Carbon in a sentence

Example 1: Coal is made mostly of carbon.

Example 2: Trees store carbon in their trunks and leaves as they grow.

Example 3: Our textbook shows that charcoal is a form of carbon.

Fun Fact

The name carbon comes from the Latin carbo, meaning coal or charcoal.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

carrbon

a) n
b) b
c) o
d) r

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d) r. There is only one r, straight after the a.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rcobna

a) cabin
b) carton
c) crayon
d) carbon

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d) carbon. There is a b and no t, so the word is carbon, not carton.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) mineril
b) carbon
c) oxigen
d) hidrogen

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b) carbon. Two of the wrong ones put an i where a y belongs, in oxygen and hydrogen, and mineral needs an a near its end.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A form of carbon is ____.

a) diamond
b) iron
c) glass
d) salt

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a) diamond

2. Carbon dioxide is a gas that we ____.

a) need to breathe in
b) burn to cook food
c) use to fill balloons
d) breathe out

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d) breathe out

Associated Words

Words that start with car: carpenter, cargo, cardboard, carve, care, career

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