THE GOBI DESERT By Natasha, Alejandro & Tomรกs 3ยบ B
LOCATION â–ŞThe Gobi is the largest desert of the asiatic continent . â–ŞIt covers part of northern China and southern Mongolia
CLIMATE
Characteristics: ▪Precipitation: 10 to 250 mm/year (very arid zone) ▪Maximum temperature: 38ºC ▪Minimum temperature: - 45ºC ▪It can experience abrupt changes of temperature in 24 hours
▪Altitude: from 900 m to 2400 m
TEMPERATURES WINTER :
SUMMER :
GEOMORPHOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE ▪SIZE: it covers 1.3 million square kilometres .
▪ The Gobi desert contains mountains, sand dunes and steppes.
GEORMOPHOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE â–ŞHimalaya is also an important factor in the formation of this desert
ANIMALS The Gobi desert has lot of animals which are perfectly adapted to the environment. JERBOA
SNOW LEOPARD
TAKHI
GOBI BEAR
BACTRIAN CAMEL
GOLD EAGLE
There are also wild goats, sheeps, gazelles and some rodents and lizards
PLANTS In spite of the extreme landscape and temperatures and the salinity, the Gobi desert still provides enough humidity for a few plants to survive. SAXUAL
BATIS
EPHEDRA
WILD GARLIC
POPULATION ▪Mostly of the population are from Mongolia, but some of them are a mixture of Mongolian and Chinese people. ▪Due to the temperatures and the inhospitality of the desert very few people live in this region. ▪In the past, the Gobi Desert was part of the Mongol Empire
CULTURE LIFE IN THE DESERT
â–ŞThese people are nomads that live from livestock and agriculture in the pastures of the Gobi. â–ŞTheir official language is the Mongolian
The yurts
RELIGION TIBETAN BUDDHISM ❖ The religious ceremonies form part of the daily life of the Mongols. ❖ They take place in the yurts or temples. ❖ The “animism” is the most common belief in Mongolia. ❖ The “chammanism” is the derivation of this belief.
MUSIC ❖ The music is very important for the Mongols ❖ The “Khöömi “ is the overtone singing inspired in the nature’s sounds. ❖ The Mongolian also has a big variety of traditional instruments: one of the most famous is the “ Moriin-Khuur”
PROBLEMS IN THEIR LIVES The poverty and the hard life in the country make many nomads to move to the outskirts of the capital of Mongolia. The nomads that nowadays are living in the pastures are constantly threatened by the loss of their herds because of the intense cold of winter.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS .
Desertification: the expansion of the Gobi desert into China’s grassland have increased heavily, damaging agriculture
CURIOSITY OF THE GOBI DESERT ➢The first eggs of dinosaurs were identified here . Many specialists have already found 30 skulls of lizard and small mammals ,dinosaurs skeletons and even nests and prehistoric stone tools, about 100,000 years old.
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