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Japanese Arts/Theatre
Landforms and Climate
Daily Life
Rights and Responsibilities
Meeting Nature's Challenges
100
List four types of arts in the Japanese Culture.
What is dance drama, writing, and music?
100
The term for how much rain or snow falls.
What is precipitation?
100
True or false? It is hard to make generalizations about different kinds of families. Each family has many variables.
What is true?
100
True or false? In traditional Japanese culture, a person's individual rights are not as important as her or his responsibility to the group.
What is true?
100
Japan's physical features on map show you that it is made up of islands. Fill in the blank: Japan is often called a _________ nation.
What is Island?
200
A painting on a long, narrow piece of paper.
What is a scroll?
200
Term used to describe how high a place is from sea level and where the ocean meets the land.
What is altitude?
200
Give two examples of how each family has many variables (things that could be different).
Possible answers: What is living on the farm? How many people are in your family? Living in the city? Both parents are working?
200
How many companies, usually, will a Japanese worker work for in a life time?
What is one company?
200
What is Japan's main natural resource?
What is the ocean?
300
Oldest form of drama in Japan. Actors wear wooden masks and dance to music played by drums and flute.
What is Noh theatre?
300
Japan is in the temperate zone. What does that mean?
It has the four seasons (winter, spring, summer, and fall).
300
In the Tawaga family, what do each of the parents do for work?
Mother: agricultural research assistant Father: works for a computer company
300
A term used to describe when a person knows their place in the community.
What is social order?
300
Give an example of one of Japan's exports?
What is cars or computers?
400
A poem that helps you imagine the sights, sounds, feel, taste, or smell of something in a small scene or event.
What is a haiku?
400
They are strong winds and heavy rains. They happen between late August and early October.
What is a typhoon?
400
What are the names of the two children in the Tawaga family?
Who are Yumi and Yuki?
400
In the Japanese culture, how should children "act?"
Children should always show respect and not speak out about what they want or think/feel.
400
In a traditional Japanese diet, what are the two main types of food?
What are rice and fish?
500
Japanese art is heavily influenced by what?
What is nature?
500
A climate graph displays the precipitation and _________________. Fill in the missing blank.
What is temperature?
500
List three similarities you found in Tawaga's daily life to your daily life?
Possible answers: -time it gets to school -same mode of transportation is used to get to school -packed lunches, mother does the main cooking -after school activities -similar weekend activities
500
Act out how a student should greet a teacher. Then give one example of how you show respect in your classroom.
The student should bow lower than a teacher. Possible examples: -Calling the teacher by Mrs, Miss, or Mr. -Helping the teacher and classmates
500
What are the 4 main ingredients of sushi?
What are rice, raw fish, vegetables, and seaweed?