1. Japan & the Koreas Vocabulary Terms http://foreignerjoy.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

2. Terms are in red. Definitions of the terms are in boxes. As always, set up 3 columns: Japan & the Koreas Vocab. definitionterm illustration / examples

3. 1. archipelago Japan the Philippines Indonesia http://mappery.com/map-of/East-Asia-Map

4. 1. archipelago: a group of islands http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1691221,00.html

5. http://sites.google.com/site/avianreview/Home/review-content/JapanKorea http://www.ask.com/wiki/Korean_Strait 2. strait

6. strait: a skinny piece of water joining two larger bodies of water (moved to Europe) http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1566-0135799

7. 3. isthmus: a skinny piece of land connecting two larger pieces of land http://www.sathyasai.org/organize/countryintros/panama.htmlhttp://johndomzalski.com/Module/?entry=Red-sea-suez-canal-map

8. 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

9. 5. agriculture: farming http://portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=386&mode=2&cached=true http://monica3a.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

10. 6. intensive farming http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1201759.stm http://blog.thevegancollection.com/tag/prop-2/ http://www.vmo.org/en/index/page_support/item_indoor/ http://www.cityfarmer.info/category/environment/

11. J.Hall, Kyoto, July 2010

12. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DCFemUDn-74/Se2ZSOknihI/AAAAAAAAATA/1-aH-4Dwlf0/s1600-h/Maiji+mountain+013.jpg

13. 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/

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 9. population density: how many people live in a space http://artistswhothrive.com/index.php/tag/artist-coaching/

17. 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

18. 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

19. 12. demilitarized zone: in a war, an area that both sides agree no fighting can happen (DMZ) de - militariz - ed

20. archipelago strait isthmus peninsula agriculture intensive farming tsunami Richter Scale population density Cold War dictator demilitarized zone