Unit three

Question 1

mountain range including Everest

Answer 1

The Himalayas

Question 2

The tallest mountain in the world

Answer 2

Mount Everest

Question 3

a field where rice is grown

Answer 3

Paddy fields

Question 4

intensive agriculture is a kind of agriculture where a lot of money and labor are used to increase the yield that can be obtained per area of land.

Answer 4

Intensive agriculture

Question 5

planting two different crops in the same field

Answer 5

Double cropping

Question 6

agriculture but with fishies

Answer 6

Aquaculture

Question 7

a government which is endowed with the outward symbols of authority but in which direction and control are exercised by another power.

Answer 7

Puppet government

Question 8

a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.

Answer 8

Communes

Question 9

a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.

Answer 9

Pictograms

Question 10

decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering.

Answer 10

Calligraphy

Question 11

a Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu ( fl. 6th century BC), advocating humility and religious piety.

Answer 11

Taoism

Question 12

a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius.

Answer 12

Confucianism

Question 13

military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law.

Answer 13

Martial Law

Question 14

a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.

Answer 14

Tsunamis

Question 15

a country that was connected to china but due to the Korean war there is now a north and south Korea north is communist and south is democratic

Answer 15

Korea

Question 16

A very heavily populated country made of four islands

Answer 16

Japan

Question 17

a route regularly used by large numbers of migrating birds.

Answer 17

Flyway

Question 18

a hereditary commander in chief in feudal Japan. Because of the military power concentrated in his hands and the consequent weakness of the nominal head of state (the mikado or emperor), the shogun was generally the real ruler of the country until feudalism was abolished in 1867.

Answer 18

Shogun

Question 19

a political revolution that ended the shogun and restored power to the emperor.

Answer 19

Meiji Restoration

Question 20

add (territory) to one’s own territory by appropriation.

Answer 20

Annex

Question 21

Japans elected lawmaking body

Answer 21

Diet

Question 22

demilitarized zone, an area from which warring parties agree to remove their military forces.

Answer 22

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Question 23

a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.

Answer 23

Subsidies

Question 24

the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.

Answer 24

Work ethic

Question 25

an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country.

Answer 25

Special Economic Zones

Question 26

an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.

Answer 26

Armistice