East Asia

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery (6)
  2. 5. Formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province (8)
  3. 7. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu (8)
  4. 9. A member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in ___ and Thailand (plural) (4)
  5. 10. A measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration (11)
  6. 12. A government tax on imports or exports (6)
  7. 14. A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans (7)
  8. 15. A prescribed number (5)

Down

  1. 1. To reduce in size or number of employees (8)
  2. 2. A political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong ___ force and to be (10)
  3. 4. A landlocked socialist republic in central Asia (8)
  4. 6. An ionic compound that resists changes in its pH (6)
  5. 8. All of the same or similar kind or nature (11)
  6. 11. A port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan (9)
  7. 13. Island country in Asia with Tokyo as its capital (5)
  8. 14. The capital and largest city of Japan (5)