1. Home Sweet Home
Leila 3B

2. Mongolian Yurt

3. Location
• Mongolia (Ulan Bator)

4. Place : What is it like there?
• Continental Climate
• Very cold in winter and hot in summer
• Four seasons
• Thundery rain in the summer
• Geographical Features
• Flat
• Not many mountains
• Grassy

5. People
• Mongolian People
• Jobs:
• Milk goats
• Make bread
• Grind wheat
• Mongolians live in Yurts

6. Materials
• Main Materials
• Wood
• Sticks
• Felt (made of wool)
• Other Materials
• Metal
• Where The Materials Come From
• Wood: trees
• Felt: sheep / goat

7. The House
• Design- people
• Rooms
• One room
• One room is used for many things , for example:
a bedroom, a kitchen , a living room
• Energy
• Heat
• Light

8. Special Features
• Adaptation to Climate
• The felt
• The stove
• Environmentally Good
• Uses little energy
• It burns horses droppings
• Uses little resources
• Doesn’t cut 1 whole tree

9. Interesting Facts
• Horses droppings = fuel for stove
• They eat koumiss
• In center of yurt they light fire
• Smoke from fire escapes through round hole
and in top of yurt

10. Works Cited
• Wonderful Homes Around the World
• By Yoshio Komatsu
• Homes in Cold People
• By Alan James
• Homes Around the World
• By Anna Sproule
• Usborne Book of Houses and Homes
• By
• The Yurt / First Impressions HOUSES
• By Schofield and Sims Ltd
• http://www.yurt-land.com/images/home/yurt_big.jpg