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ASFL Academic Team E
Worksheet round All answers begin with E
Question | Answer |
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Large bird of prey, Auburn University mascot | Eagle |
Spring feast of the Christian church commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ | Easter |
Country whose capital is Quito | Ecuador |
Study of the relationship among organisms and the environment | ecology |
The uppermost layer of the atmosphere | exosphere |
The organ of vision | eye |
The point on the earth's surface immediately above the seismic focus of earthquake | epicenter |
A clear green gemstone | Emerald |
Early developmental stage of an animal following fertilization | embryo |
Substance that cannot be split chemically into simpler substances | element |
A stable negatively-charged elementary particel | electron |
Thirty-fourth president of the United States | Eisenhower (Dwight D) |
German-born U.S. physicist who formulated the theory of relativity | Einstein |
In animals, the female reproductive cell | egg |
Capital of Scotland | Edinburgh |
U.S. aviation pioneer who became the first women to fly across the Atlantic | Earhart, Amelia |
Swedish tennis player, winner of the 1991 and 1992 U.S. open | Edberg, Stefan |
Chilean island known for its huge, carved, statues | Easter Island |
Social science devoted to studying the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth | economics |
Repetition of a soundwave caused by reflection from a surfaces | echo |
Country in which the Aswan High Dam is located | Egypt |
Scrooge's first name in Dickens' A Christmas Carol | Ebenezer |
New York City building immortalized in the 1933 movie King Kong | Empire State Building |
Parisian tower named for the "Magician of Iron" who built it for an exposition in 1889 | Eiffel tower |
Part of the body affected by glaucoma | eyes |
Spelling of the title for the Japanese Emperor's wife | empress |
Island 2,200 miles off the coast of Chile known for its gigantic prehistoric statues | Easter |
Body of water into which France's Seine River empties | English Channel |
Name given to a numerical superscript that expresses the power to which a quantity is to be raised | Exponent |
Term designating a female sheep | Ewe |
Country from which Eritrea declared its independence in 1993 after 30 years of war | Ethiopia |
Literary form defined as "a brief piece of prose expressing a personal point of view" | essay |
Punctuation mark other that a period that can end an imperative sentence | exclamation |
Country a cross which Hadrian's Wall was built c. A. D. 20, from the mouth of the Tyne River to the solway Firth | England |
Company whose ship, the Valdez, ran aground in Alaska and spilled 11 million gallons of oil in 1989 | Exxon |
Latin motto of the U.S., translated as "one out of many" or from many, one" | E pluribus Unim |
Process that accounts for a lowering of the water level in a container of water left open to the air for 24 hours | evaporate |
Theory a Tennesse biology teacher was arrested for teaching | evolution |
Formal speech of praise | encouragement |
Of excavate, extract, expatriate, or exhume, one meaning "to remove from a grave" | excavate |