Japan

Why does Japan experience thousands of earthquakes a year?

• Ring of Fire

• archipelagos

• tsunamis

• typhoons

Undersea earthquakes are destructive along Japan's coast because of big waves called________.

• tsunamis

• archipelagos

• typhoons

• Ring of Fire

The most famous peak of Japan and national symbol is

• Mt. Fuji

• Mt. Kobe

• Mt. Japan

• Mt. Kanto

What land feature dominates most of Japan?

Group of answer choices

• mountains or hills

• plains

• deserts

• forests

Where will you will find most of Japan’s cities, farms, and industries?

• coastal plain

• forests

• steepe

• mountains

The Japanese trace their ancestry to various _____, or groups of related families, that originally came from the mainland of Asia and lived on the islands as early as the late A.D. 400s.

• clans

• samurai

• shoguns

• Shinto

What have the Japanese borrowed from the Chinese?

• way of life

• samurai

• money

• all of the answers

What religions do the Japanese practice most?

• Buddhism and Shinto

• Buddhism and Hinduism

• Hinduism and Shinto

• no religions are practiced

From the late 1100s to the 1860s, Japan was ruled by _________.

• shoguns

• clans

• ninjas

• emperor

What type of government does Japan have today?

• constitutional monarchy

• constitutional dictatorship

• republic

• communism