Unit Three Japan

Question 1

A mountain system of south-central Asia extending about 2,400 km

Answer 1

The Himalayas

Question 2

tallest mountain in the world found in Nepal

Answer 2

Mount Everest

Question 3

a field where rice is grown

Answer 3

Paddy fields

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Intensive agriculture

Question 5

harvesting two crops in the same plot each year

Answer 5

Double cropping

Question 6

raising and harvesting fish and marine life in ponds or other bodies of water

Answer 6

Aquaculture

Question 7

government controlled by outside forces, such as another country’s government

Answer 7

Puppet government

Question 8

collective farms grouped together to organize farming and plan public services

Answer 8

Communes

Question 9

simple pictures used to represent ideas

Answer 9

Pictograms

Question 10

artistic handwriting or lettering

Answer 10

Calligraphy

Question 11

a religion that teaches there is a natural order to the universe called the Tao

Answer 11

Taoism

Question 12

a philosophy based on the teachings of Confucius an ancient Chinese philosopher

Answer 12

Confucianism

Question 13

military rule

Answer 13

Martial Law

Question 14

large sea waves created by undersea tectonics activity like earthquakes

Answer 14

Tsunamis

Question 15

a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea:

Answer 15

Korea

Question 16

an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean

Answer 16

Japan

Question 17

migration route for birds

Answer 17

Flyway

Question 18

a powerful warlord in early Japan

Answer 18

Shogun

Question 19

Japanese political revolution that overthrew the shogun and restored the power of the emperor

Answer 19

Meiji Restoration

Question 20

to formally join a country or area

Answer 20

Annex

Question 21

Japan’s elected lawmaking body

Answer 21

Diet

Question 22

a buffer zone into which opposing armies may not enter

Answer 22

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Question 23

financial support from the government

Answer 23

Subsidies

Question 24

the belief that work itself has moral value

Answer 24

Work ethic

Question 25

zones designed to attract foreign companies and investment to areas of China

Answer 25

Special Economic Zones

Question 26

truce

Answer 26

Armistice