Japan
North Korea
South Korea
Both Koreas
Vocabulary
100
This city is the capital of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
100
North Korea's economy is _________________, which means the government owns the land and the businesses.
What is communist?
100
South Korea has a ____________________ economy that exports many industrial goods to other countries.
What is free enterprise?
100
The Korean ___________________is located between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea.
What is peninsula?
100
This is a huge sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
200
This is an area in the Pacific Ocean that experiences many earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
The capital of North Korea is __________________.
What is Pyongyang?
200
South Korea has a climate affected by ______________ winds.
What is monsoon?
200
This parallel, or line of latitude, is where North Korea and South Korea are divided.
What is the 38th parallel?
200
A group of islands is called an ____________________.
What is an archipelago?
300
Japan's economy is based on these two activities.
What are manufacturing and trade?
300
One of North Korea's mineral resources is a hard coal called __________________.
What is anthracite?
300
South Korea's farmers ______ their own land.
What is own?
300
Mismanagement in key__________and businesses have weakened South Korea's industrial performance.
What are banks?
300
A __________________ is an urban area made up of several large cities.
What is a megalopolis?
400
Japan's population is half the size of the _______________.
What is the United States?
400
This communist country took over the Northern half of Korea after World War II.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
The capital of South Korea is _________________.
What is Seoul?
400
This kingdom ruled the Korean Peninsula from A.D. 668-935.
What is Silla?
400
Warriors in early Japan were called _______________.
What are samurais?
500
Japan's two major religions are _____________and____________.
What are Shinto and Buddhism?
500
Under communism, North Koreans are _______________ from practicing religion.
What is discouraged?
500
Some South Koreans are Christians, but most practice Buddhism and the teachings of ________________.
What is Confucius?
500
The Koreans built one of the first astronomical _________________ in the A.D. 600s.
What are observatories?
500
Using every last bit of land when farming is called _________________ cultivation.
What is intensive?
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