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[O02-01] Inappropriate terms for educational use in geography
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Keywords:physical geography , orogenic belts, desert, erosion, glacial period
Some inappropriate terms are employed in high school geography textbooks.
1) In the section on global landscapes, the terms of “orogenic belts” and “orogenic movements” are used to explain landform features of mountains and upheaval of the mountains, while the terms explain just global geologic structures and tectonic geology. Term “orogenic” should be deleted, and “hendo tai (mobile belts)” of plate tectonics should be used.
2) “Sabaku” in Japanese is the same meaning as desert, but the Chinese characters (kanji) of sabaku imply vast sand landscapes so that students imagine that the all deserts are sand deserts. Another characters implying sand free should be suggested.
3) Different usage of Kanji (Chinese characters) between textbooks and popular books appears on some terms such as “erosion” and “glacial period/age”.
Faculty of universities and colleges should revise the textbooks and geographers should propose the correct usage of kanji to journalism.
1) In the section on global landscapes, the terms of “orogenic belts” and “orogenic movements” are used to explain landform features of mountains and upheaval of the mountains, while the terms explain just global geologic structures and tectonic geology. Term “orogenic” should be deleted, and “hendo tai (mobile belts)” of plate tectonics should be used.
2) “Sabaku” in Japanese is the same meaning as desert, but the Chinese characters (kanji) of sabaku imply vast sand landscapes so that students imagine that the all deserts are sand deserts. Another characters implying sand free should be suggested.
3) Different usage of Kanji (Chinese characters) between textbooks and popular books appears on some terms such as “erosion” and “glacial period/age”.
Faculty of universities and colleges should revise the textbooks and geographers should propose the correct usage of kanji to journalism.