Ring of Fire and Earthquakes
This area around the Pacific Ocean is known for having most of the world’s earthquakes and volcanoes.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
A giant ocean wave usually caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a Tsunami?
This imaginary line divided Korea into North and South after World War II.
What is the 38th parallel?
This staple food is eaten at most me in Japan and China.
What is rice?
This Olympic skier tried to compete on a torn ACL but unfortunately finished with an injury.
Who is Lindsey Vonn?
These giant pieces of Earth’s crust move slowly and cause earthquakes when they shift.
What are tectonic plates?
Tropical storms in East Asia are known by this name.
What are typhoons?
This country invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, starting the Korean War.
What is North Korea?
What is seafood?
This is Mr. Bertschinger's favorite band of all time.
Who are the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
Japan experiences thousands of these natural events each year.
What are earthquakes?
When tsunami waves reach shallow coastal water, they do this.
What is grow larger(or increase in height)?
This U.S. general led the successful landing at Inchon.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
In many East Asian countries, large populations live in these crowded areas because mountains limit farmland and space.
What is urban areas(cities)?
This is Mr. Bertschinger's Favorite color(besides the color of his team).
Smaller earthquakes that happen after a major earthquake are called this.
What are aftershocks?
What happened in Japan in 2011?
What was the 2011 earthquake?
This country entered the war when UN troops moved close to its border.
What is China?
At the end of the school day in Japan students do this to their classrooms.
What is clean it?
This is Mr. Bertschinger's favorite baseball team.
Who are the Milwaukee Brewers?
One major way Japan reduces earthquake damage is by designing buildings to do this instead of collapse.
What is sway(or move/flex safely)
Governments use this technology in space to track and warn people about incoming typhoons.
What are satellites?
This agreement ended the fighting in 1953 but did not officially end the war.
What is an armistice?
This modern form of Japanese entertainment includes animated shows and graphic novels.
What is Anime(or manga)?
These are the names of Mr. Bertschinger's siblings.
Who are Nick and Natalie?