Giant Pandas and Terracotta Warriors By Rachel Brandes

Giant Pandas and Terracotta Warriors By Rachel Brandes & Erica Jonas

Giant pandas • Giant pandas are carnivores. • They live in mountain ranges in central China in the Shichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. • Giant pandas live in broadleaf forests with understudy of bamboo at elevations between 5, 000 and 10, 000 feet. • Torrential rains or mist throughout the year characterizes the forest. • The size of a giant panda is about the size of an American black bear • Giant pandas are between 2 and 3 feet tall at the shoulder. They reach about 4 to 6 feet long. • Males are larger than females. Males weigh up to 250 pounds, females rarely reach 220 pounds.

Giant Pandas • Scientists aren’t sure how long giant pandas live in the wild. Chinese scientists have said zoo pandas live as old as 35 years old. • A wild giant panda’s diet is 99% bamboo. Every so often they eat grasses and small rodents or musk deer fawns. • In zoos they eat bamboo, sugar cane, rice grue, a special high fiber biscuit, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes.

Terracotta Warriors • The Terracotta Warriors are stone army figures. • The Terracotta Warriors represent a small portion of the 8, 000 strong underground army that was buried in front of one of the emperors’ tombs to defend him in the afterlife. • Only a small fraction of the total army figures have been uncovered. • Right now they have only discovered 8, 000 soldiers with 130 chariots, 530 horses, and 150 cavalry horses.

Terracotta Warriors • Even though each Terracotta Warrior is unique, they also have some things in common. • All of their molds have the same nose but the rest of the body was mostly different. • Surprisingly only 7 got damaged by the huge earthquake which was 8. 0 on the Richter scale, but two were being paraded in London.

Important vocabulary words 1 This is how you say giant panda in chinese Dà xióngmāo 大熊猫 2 This is how you say Terracotta Warriors in chinese Bīngmǎyǒng 兵�俑

Pictures • Terracotta Warriors protecting

Pictures • The giant panda is eating

Pictures Panda and Terracotta Warriors

Giant Pandas and Terracotta Warriors