"Around We Go" Unit 4 Root Words

The complete path that an electric current travels along

The clever bear was able to ___ his capture by placing a branch in the hunter's trap.

Choose an antonym for cyclical.

The length of a line that goes around a circle or other round shape

A condition that surrounds or causes an event to happen

What circumstance could most likely prevent a person from getting a job?

Tending to act in strange or unusual ways

Choose a synonym for eccentric.

Located in the center of a thing or place

The family reunion was held in a ___ location so that nobody needed to travel too far to attend.

To get around something in a clever and sometimes dishonest way

What effect might a cyclone have on a town?

An extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm with very high winds that turn around in an area of low pressure

wires: circuit :: car: _____

When two or more objects share the same center point

We counted all of the ___ circles in the tree stump to calculate how many years the tree was alive before it was cut.

A set of events or actions that happen again and again in the same order; a repeating series of events or actions

General Sherman, the world's largest living tree by volume, has a ___ of over 102 feet around its base.

Happening again and again in the same order; happening in cycles

The rock ___ describes the repeated process that rocks go through as they become sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous.