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Spell Bee Word: Ecology


What does ecology mean?

Word: Ecology

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Ecology means the study of how plants, animals and people live together and depend on their surroundings.

How do you spell ecology?

Syllables: e - col - o - gy

Tricky part: The ending is logy, as in biology, and the g sounds like j.

Watch out for: ecolagy, ecologi, ecolojy

Memory tip: Biology, zoology and ecology all end in -logy, which means the study of.

Ecology in a sentence

Example 1: We learnt about the ecology of a pond in our EVS class.

Example 2: Cutting forests can harm the ecology of a region.

Example 3: My sister wants to study ecology at university.

Fun Fact

The German scientist Ernst Haeckel coined the word, as Oekologie, in 1866.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) habitat
b) icology
c) pollution
d) biology

Show answer

b) icology. Ecology starts with an e, like the word echo.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letters to form a word:

e__logy

a) c, a
b) c, o
c) k, a
d) k, o

Show answer

b) c, o. A c makes the k sound, and an o follows it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

glycooe

a) eulogy
b) economy
c) geology
d) ecology

Show answer

d) ecology. Geology needs two g's and economy needs m and n.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our ecology project looks at the plants and insects in the school gardin.

a) gardin
b) plants
c) ecology
d) insects

Show answer

a) gardin. Garden ends in en, not in.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which topic belongs in an ecology lesson?

a) how a car engine works
b) how coins were made long ago
c) how frogs and fish share a pond
d) how to add fractions

Show answer

c) how frogs and fish share a pond

2. Villagers want to protect the ecology of their river. What should they do?

a) cutting the trees along the bank
b) building a factory on the bank
c) keeping plastic out of the water
d) draining it to build houses

Show answer

c) keeping plastic out of the water

Associated Words

Words that end in -ology: psychology, cosmology, chronology, methodology, seismology, physiology

More words from this list

govern, lad, oyster, renew, strong, vivid, athletics, considerable

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