Basic Geography E

Question 1

economics

Answer 1

study of how people meet their wants and needs

Question 2

ecosystem

Answer 2

group of plants and animals that depend on each other and their environment for survival

Question 3

ecotourism

Answer 3

tourism that focuses on the environment and seeks to minimize environmental impact

Question 4

electronic fraud

Answer 4

unfair elections in which one group controls the results to gain power

Question 5

elevation

Answer 5

height above sea level

Question 6

emigrate

Answer 6

to migrate out of a place

Question 7

empire

Answer 7

state containing several countries or territories

Question 8

English Bill of Rights

Answer 8

an act passed in 1689 that limited the power of the English monarch and increased Parliament’s power

Question 9

Enlightenment

Answer 9

a period during the 1600’s and 1700’s when scholars studied culture and society by applying reason and natural laws

Question 10

entrepreneur

Answer 10

person who organizes and manages his or her own business

Question 11

entrepreneurship

Answer 11

starting a business

Question 12

epic

Answer 12

long poem of adventure and conflict

Question 13

equinox

Answer 13

point at which, everywhere on Earth, days and nights are nearly equal in length

Question 14

erosion

Answer 14

process in which water, ice or wind remove rock and soil

Question 15

ethics

Answer 15

beliefs about what is right and wrong

Question 16

ethnic cleansing

Answer 16

attempt to create an area with only one ethnic group by removing or attacking other ethnic groups

Question 17

ethnocentrism

Answer 17

attitude that one’s own social or cultural group is better than all others

Question 18

European Union

Answer 18

economic and political partnership among member nations

Question 19

evacuate

Answer 19

to move to another area

Question 20

evaporation

Answer 20

process in which a liquid changes to a gas

Question 21

export

Answer 21

good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country’s

Question 22

extended family

Answer 22

family that includes parents, children, and other family members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins