| A | B |
|---|
| tsunami | huge sea wave caused by an earthquake on the ocean floor |
| archipelago | group of islands |
| intensive cultivation | growing crops on every available piece of land |
| clan | group of people related to one another |
| shogun | military leader in early Japan |
| samurai | powerful land-owning warriors in Japan |
| constitutional monarchy | government in which a king or queen is the official head of state, but elected officials run the government |
| megalopolis | pattern of heavy urban settlement over a large area |
| parallel | location north or south of the equator, measure by imaginary lines (parallels) that are numbered in degrees north or south |
| famine | lack of food |
