Sunday, November 29, 2009

Natural resources/Arable land



Arable land means land that can be used to grow things on.

Not much of Japan's land is arable. Why do you think this is?

Japan only grows enough food for about 40% of its people. Things such as wheat,corn,many kinds of fruit etc are brought in from other countries. Here is a picture of what one family eats in one week.
Japan also needs to get a lot of its energy from other countries, especially oil.

Japan does have energy sources though. Coal, natural gas, nuclear power, and hydro power power a lot of the country.

Japan is also one of the most energy-efficient developed economies in the world.

Deposits of gold, magnesium, and silver can be found but other minerals are brought in from other countries.

Japan is an export nation. This means it gets a lot of materials such as oil, minerals, wood and so on and then turns them into things such as cameras, cars, televisions which are then sold to people like us.

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