Language Arts - Cross-Curricular - Science

Science and Fields of Study

There are a lot of sciences and fields of study that you've probably heard of. The names of most of them end with the postfix -ology, which means to study. Here are a bunch of examples:

  archaeology - study of human artifacts
  biology - study of life
  ecology - study of environment
  geology - study of earth's crust
  pathology - study of disease
  psychology - study of mind
  sociology - study of society
  zoology - study of animals

 
  acoustics - study of sound
  botany - study of plants
  chemistry - study of substances
  horticulture - study of gardening
  linguistics - study of language
  syntax - study of sentence structure

  astrogeology - study of extraterrestrial geology
  audiology - study of hearing
  auxology - study of growth
  bacteriology - study of bacteria
  cardiology - study of the heart
  climatology - study of climate
  cosmology - study of the universe
  criminology study of crime
  cryptology - study of codes
  dermatology - study of skin
  embryology - study of embryos
  entomology - study of insects
  etymology - study of origins of words
  gerontology - study of aging
  lithology - study of rocks
  microbiology - study of microscopic organisms
  neurology - study of the nervous system
  optology - study of sight
  paleontology - study of fossils
  pharmacology - study of drugs
  toxicology - study of poisons