Vocabulary
The continent in the North and East hemispheres
What is Asia?
The country with the largest population in the world.
What is China?
The highest mountain peak in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
The celebration of the Lunar Calendar.
The family in the 12th and 13th centuries who had the largest territory ever controlled by one group of people.
Who were the Khans?
Also called parallels, they run North and South of the Equator.
What is latitude?
This country is made up of 4 main islands and has the most populated city in the whole world.
What is Japan?
The three oceans that surround the continent of Asia.
What are the Artic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans?
A fossil fuel burned to make electricity, largely mined in China.
What is coal?
The title of the leader of China prior to the 1920s.
What is an emperor?
Also called meridians, distances East and West of the Prime Meridian.
What is Longitude?
This country is known for k-pop, Samsung, and Hyundai.
What is Korea?
What is Southeast Asia?
The cartoon animation in Japan.
What is anime?
The trading route that connected China, India, and Persia.
What is the Silk Road?
North, east, south and west
When it is cardinal direction?
The country with the tallest building in the world.
What is Dubai?
This largest desert in Asia is 1/3 of the size of the US.
What is the Arabian Desert?
India's largest holiday celebration.
What is Dawali?
The system in India that separates people by the class that they were born into.
What is the caste system?
"half a sphere"
What is Hemisphere?
This capital city is known as the "Venice of the East".
What is Bangkok, Thailand?
This oldest, deepest lake in Russia has 20% of the world's unfrozen freshwater.
What is Lake Baikal?
Hina Matsuri
What is the Japanese doll festival?
A Venetian merchant who traveled throughout Asia, once lived with Kublai Khan, and inspired other European travelers after him.
Who is Marco Polo?