Japan & the Koreas Vocabulary Terms .

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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& 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)

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• archipelago• strait• isthmus• peninsula• agriculture• intensive

farming• tsunami

• Richter Scale• population

density• Cold War• dictator• demilitarized

zone