11 unit 12 kansai international airport worksheet

PARAGRAPH 1 : Since the 1950’s, traveling by air has been very popular...

When did flying start to become a popular way to travel?

What are two reasons why people fly?

PARAGRAPH 2 : Air travel is very important to business. In the 1960’s...

PARAGRAPH 3: Planners decided to build a new airport for the Kansai...

In the 1960’s, why did business people in Kansai want to improve their airport?

What were the 2 reasons that the new Kansai airport was built? (instead of expanding the old one)

**Why did we build Chubu International Airport instead of expanding the old Nagoya airport?**

What kind of an island is the Kansai airport built on?

The new airport was built in the middle of what body of water?

Please write one advantange and one disadvantage of the new airport’s location: ADVANTAGE DISADVANTAGE

Unit 12

Kansai International Airport

First Name: _______________ Last Name: _______________ Student #: _______________

Group: _______________ Week: _______________

PARAGRAPH 4 : After 20 years of planning, construction of Kansai...

PARAGRAPH 5 : Kansai International Airport finally opened in September...

How many years did it take to plan the Kansai Airport?

How many years did it take to build the Kansai Airport?

Where did the 21,000,000m³ of soil come from?

Do you have to go in a boat to get to the Kansai Airport?

What problem occurred which delayed the project?

When did the Kansai Airport finally open?

How big is Kansai Airport’s artificial island?

How long is the terminal building at Kansai Airport?

The Kansai Airport terminal building is the __________________ in the world.

PARAGRAPH 6: The terminal roof has two interesting features. It is shaped...

Why did the builders of the Kansai Airport make the shape of the roof like an airplane wing?

Why do engineers sometimes have to raise the roof on the Kansai Airport?

1. possible__________2. region__________3. improve__________4. impossible__________5. noise__________6. pollution__________7. advantage__________8. earthquake__________9. construction__________10. seawall__________11. earth/soil__________12. *Earth__________13. seafloor__________14. cubic meter__________15. mainland__________16. sunk__________17. delay__________18. air circulation__________19. roof__________20. thick__________

a)地方

b)長所

c)土

d)地球

e)向上させる

f)空気循環

g)厚い

h)不可能

i)遅らせる

j)護岸

k)地震

l)m³ (立方メートル)

m)可能

n)本土

o)汚染

p)沈んだ

q)ノイズ

r)屋根

s)海底

t)建設

The terminal is 1.7 kilometers from end to end.

Rainbow Bridge mamushi

1) _______________ is ____________________________________ from end to end. 名詞　　　　 長さ2) The longest mamushi in the world was ________________________________

_______________________________________________.

They used 21 million cubic meters of soil from 3 mountains.

CUBIC METERS

What other things are cubic meters used for??? Some cities use cubic meters to calculate how much water people use in their house. How much water do you use??

I use approximately _________________ of water per year in my house.