Across
- 3. The four main islands include Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and this one
- 5. Many Japanese wear these when sick as a polite way to protect others (tradition from the Spanish Flu era)
- 7. Population density: total people divided by arable land area (pizza example)
- 11. 1923 massive earthquake that struck Tokyo and Yokohama, caused huge firestorms, and killed over 140,000 people
- 12. Japan's tallest and most famous mountain
- 14. Big session where Japan passed many strict pollution laws ("Pollution ____")
- 15. Bay where factories dumped mercury in the 1950s, poisoning fish and people
- 17. Japan's national bird that symbolizes longevity, good luck, & resilience
- 18. 1995 earthquake that hit the port city of Kobe, caused over $100 billion in damage on filled-in land, and killed more than 6,400 people
Down
- 1. A chain of islands
- 2. Giant ocean wave often caused by an earthquake
- 4. Japan has a mild, not-too-hot-not-too-cold climate (this word)
- 6. Population density: total people divided by total land area
- 8. Japanese word for group harmony (we used it in our WW2 unit)
- 9. 2011 nuclear accident caused by an earthquake and tsunami that forced over 400,000 people to evacuate
- 10. Central to Japanese food, identity, and many traditions
- 13. When you can’t have everything you want, so choosing one thing means giving up something else.
- 16. Good land for growing crops (Japan has only about one-eighth of this)
