Vocabulary
Land suitable for growing crops
What is arable land?
Nearly 400 hours of ____ ____ every year
What is commute time?
Many Japanese people do not have _______ ______
What are separate bedrooms?
Japan can build tall buildings because they have _____ _____ building techniques
What is earthquake resistant?
Japanese wear these to prevent getting others sick
What are surgical masks?
The population of a country divided by its arable land area
What is physiologic population density?
To own a car, you need to prove you have a ______ _____
What is a parking space?
Many ____ _____ are smaller than American homes
What are Japanese houses?
To make flat areas in mountains for farming
What is terracing?
Smoke from factories cause these
What are breathing problems?
Where people live in a country, whether crowded together in cities or spread out across the country-side
What is population distruibution?
____ ____ travel at speeds up to 180 mph
What are bullet trains?
At bedtime, people sleep on ______
What are futons?
Because they have limited space, they build here
What is underground?
_____ and waste ruin rivers
What is sewage?
An island off the coast of Asia
What is Japan?
People wearing white gloves in a subway
What are subway pushers?
____ ____ are used to make use of space in crowded cities
What are capsule hotels?
The amount of square feet a person has in their home
What is 170 square feet?
Many people in Japan got sick and died from _____ ______
What is mercury poisoning?
The population of a country divided by its total land area.
What is arithmetic population density?
Commute time for one person is usually _____
What is 90 minutes?
Fifty years ago, Japan was ____
What is rural?
Where most people live in Japan
What is the coast?
The worst pollution problem in Japan, happened in the ______'s
What are the 1950's?