Wild China Tibet List animals and plants

you see. Questions with

1. How much of China is made up by the Tibetan Plateau? * indicate animals /
plants described in
2. Describe the climate of winter on the Tibetan Plateau.* documentary.

3. How many people live in Tibet? What is the majority

religion?

4. How many glaciers do the Himalayas have?

5. Describe Qinghai Lake. *

6. Describe the nature of Tibetan religion.

7. What causes the boiling natural springs? How long has

this process been occurring? *

8. What is the worlds highest living big cat? *

9. What is the highest permanent-resident animal on the

planet?*

10.What do Tibetans call Everest?

11. Describe the climate and weather on the Plateau on the

Northern Grassland.*

12.How do Tibetan Antelope survive at such high altitudes

with thin air?

13.Why is the yak important to the Tibetan people?

14.How to Tibetans use valleys between hills and the

surrounding mountains?

15.What group creates a large proportion of Tibetan society.

16.What are the beliefs of the Buddhists?

List animals and 17.What are the spiritual teachers called? What do they
plants you see. encourage people to do? Why?

18.What is one of the most respected animals on the Plateau?*

BONUS Why might a bird be so respected by the Tibetan people?

19.What is the purpose of the Tibetan prayer wheel?

20.What animal helps the ecology of the grasslands? How?*

21.What predator pair hunts this animal?*

22.Why have animals remained relatively undisturbed in certain

parts of the Plateau?

23.How has shifting toward modernity changed the region?

24.What allows Indian monsoon winds to come through the

Himalayas? How does it affect the Yarlung Gorge?

25.How does the Tibetan Plateau affect the climate of all of South
Asia?

26.What is the myth of the Axis of the World? Which mountain

matches this myth?

27.What ceremony is performed as a part of pilgrimage to the

mountain?

28. What do the Tibetan Buddhists beliefs about reincarnation

cause them to dol with the dead?

29. What rivers stem from the Tibetan Plateau?

30. How is climate change affecting the Tibetan Plateau?