2. Giant Pandas and Terracotta Warriors By Rachel Brandes & Erica Jonas

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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 after- life. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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 Bīngm ǎ y ǒ ng 兵马俑

8. Pictures Terracotta Warriors protecting

9. Pictures The giant panda is eating

10. Pictures Panda and Terracotta Warriors

11. Giant Pandas and Terracotta Warriors