This document contains a student worksheet with questions about Kansai International Airport. It asks the student to fill in blanks with information from 6 paragraphs describing key details about the airport, such as when it opened, why it was built on an artificial island, and interesting features of its large terminal building. The student is asked multiple choice and short answer questions testing their comprehension of the paragraphs.

1. First Name: _______________ Last Name: _______________ Student #: _______________
Group: _______________ Week: _______________
Unit 12
Kansai International Airport
PARAGRAPH 1 : Since the 1950’s, traveling by air has been very popular...
When did flying start to become a popular way to travel?
What are two reasons why people fly?
PARAGRAPH 2 : Air travel is very important to business. In the 1960’s...
In the 1960’s, why did business people in Kansai want to improve their airport?
What were the 2 reasons that the new Kansai airport was built? (instead of expanding the old one)
**Why did we build Chubu International Airport instead of expanding the old Nagoya airport?**
PARAGRAPH 3: Planners decided to build a new airport for the Kansai...
What kind of an island is the Kansai airport built on?
The new airport was built in the middle of what body of water?
Please write one advantange and one disadvantage of the new airport’s location:
ADVANTAGE DISADVANTAGE

2. PARAGRAPH 4 : After 20 years of planning, construction of Kansai...
How many years did it take to plan the Kansai Airport?
How many years did it take to build the Kansai Airport?
Where did the 21,000,000m³ of soil come from?
Do you have to go in a boat to get to the Kansai Airport?
What problem occurred which delayed the project?
PARAGRAPH 5 : Kansai International Airport finally opened in September...
When did the Kansai Airport finally open?
How big is Kansai Airport’s artificial island?
How long is the terminal building at Kansai Airport?
The Kansai Airport terminal building is the __________________ in the world.
PARAGRAPH 6: The terminal roof has two interesting features. It is shaped...
Why did the builders of the Kansai Airport make the shape of the roof like an airplane wing?
Why do engineers sometimes have to raise the roof on the Kansai Airport?

3. 1. possible__________
2. region__________
3. improve__________
a)地方 k)地震
4. impossible__________
5. noise__________ b)長所 l)m³ (立方メートル)
6. pollution__________
c)土 m)可能
7. advantage__________
8. earthquake__________ d)地球 n)本土
9. construction__________ e)向上させる o)汚染
10. seawall__________
11. earth/soil__________ f)空気循環 p)沈んだ
12. *Earth__________ g)厚い q)ノイズ
13. seafloor__________
h)不可能 r)屋根
14. cubic meter__________
15. mainland__________ i)遅らせる s)海底
16. sunk__________ j)護岸 t)建設
17. delay__________
18. air circulation__________
19. roof__________
20. thick__________
The terminal is 1.7 kilometers from end to end.
Rainbow Bridge mamushi
1) _______________ is ____________________________________ from end to end.
名詞 長さ
2) The longest mamushi in the world was ________________________________
_______________________________________________.

4. They used 21 million cubic meters of soil from 3 mountains.
CUBIC METERS
What other things are cubic meters used for??? Some cities use cubic meters to calculate
how much water people use in their house. How much water do you use??
I use approximately _________________ of water
per year in my house.