Japan & the Koreas
Vocabulary Terms
http://foreignerjoy.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html
Terms are in red.
Definitions of the terms are in boxes.
As always, set up 3 columns:Japan & the Koreas
Vocab.
definitiontermillustration/ examples
1. archipelago
Japan
the Philippines
Indonesia
http://mappery.com/map-of/East-Asia-Map
1. archipelago: a group of islands
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1691221,00.html
http://sites.google.com/site/avianreview/Home/review-content/JapanKorea
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Korean_Strait
2. strait
strait: a skinny piece of water joining two larger bodies of water (moved to Europe)
http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1566-0135799
3. isthmus: a skinny piece of land connecting two larger pieces of land
http://www.sathyasai.org/organize/countryintros/panama.html http://johndomzalski.com/Module/?entry=Red-sea-suez-canal-map
4. peninsula: land with water on 3 sides (moved to Europe)
http://www.mexico-family-vacations.com/driving-mexico.html
http://www.ndstudies.org/resources/habitats/assessments.html
5. agriculture: farming
http://portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=386&mode=2&cached=truehttp://monica3a.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html
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intensive farming: producing lots of food with limited space; tends to be high-tech
& use lots of chemicals
http://www.ruralintelligence.com/index.php/blog_section/blog_articles_AgriCulture/agriculture/
7. tsunami: large ocean wave caused (usually) by an undersea earthquake
http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/naturalhazards/tsunami/fig6_tsunami_rupture.jpg/image_view
Tsunami comes from two Japanese words: harbor & wave.
8. Richter Scale: a rating of 1-10 for earthquakes; 10 is strongest.
http://geology12-7.wikispaces.com/Unit+2+Internal+Processes+and+Plate+Tectonic+Theory
9. population density: how many people live in a space
http://artistswhothrive.com/index.php/tag/artist-coaching/
10. Cold War: 1950s-1990s war of threats U.S. v. Soviet Union
http://multimedialearningllc.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/kennedy-versus-khrushchev-cold-war-political-cartoon/
https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/index.php/Imperialism/ColdWarContainment
11. dictator: one person with total control over a country
http://www.sachsreport.com/archive2.3.htm
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/01/sacha-baren-cohen-is-saddam-hussein
12. demilitarized zone: in a war, an area that both sides agree no fighting can
happen (DMZ)
de - militariz - ed
• archipelago• strait• isthmus• peninsula• agriculture• intensive
farming• tsunami
• Richter Scale• population
density• Cold War• dictator• demilitarized
zone
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