Vocab
Japan is a chain of islands, four of them are on the large size, the rest are much smaller. This is also called.
What is an Archipelago?
Unless they have private parking off the main road the Japanese do not often own one of these, as they take up a lot of space.
What is a car?
This group of nations controls the distribution and price of much of the world's oil.
What is OPEC?
This is one way that Japan has figured out how to use its limited space to create more arable land.
What is Terracing?
Oil takes millions of years to rebuild, because its limited nature, oil is known as this.
What is a Non-Renewable Resource?
The Japanese used to live in extended families, but as population began to boom and the amount of living space in homes and apartments began to shrink they stated to live in this kind of family model.
What is a nuclear family?
Oil has improved the lives of many people in Southwest Asian countries because of the amount of money it brings in yearly to those countries. While it does not helped everyone equally it has improved their lives in at least one of these two ways.
What is life expectancy or infant mortality rate?
Japan is an island chain formed by tectonic plates and volcanic eruptions. This has caused its natural features to be largely this type of formation.
What is mountainous?
Japan has a limited amount of this type of space for farming.
What is Arable Land?
In order to get its massive population to work and school everyday, Japan has to have a very efficient one of these. In fact their trains are so efficient you can set you watch by them.
Because of oil's uneven distribution and rulers keeping money for themselves, some countries don't really see the benefits of their oil production. This is country is still one of the 40 poorest countries in the world.
What is Yemen?
Where people are placed around a region, in order to best serve their needs is called this.
What is population distribution?
This acts a cap on top of oil to prevent it from leaking out of the ground and makes it hard for people to dig up oil.
What is impermeable rock?
Because Japan has such limited space, they have to get creative when they build. In order to have commercial, residential, and office space they have to be efficient. Japan has done this to maximize the space it has for construction.
What is building up and down?
Eventually we will run out of oil and we will have to depend upon these to get our energy.
What are renewable resources?
This region of the world is know for its vast oil reserves.
What is Southwest Asia?
This is oil that has come straight out of the ground, but is not yet refined.
What is crude oil?
Having a lot of people in one place causes a lot of problems for public health. In Japan you have a lot of people tightly packed together creating a ton of waste. this has caused this to run off into streams and rivers.
What is Sewage and/or Wastewater?
GDP or Gross Domestic Product is the measure of all the goods and services produced by a country each year. This is often a way to measure a countrie's wealth an other way is the Per Capita GDP this means.
What is the average income of all the people in a given country?
Because countries are not naturally occuring in the regions of the world, this has caused oil to not be this 2 word phrase between all of the countries in Southest Asia.
What is distributed equally?