Homes Around the World

What is a home?

Would you rather live in a country house or a city apartment? Why?

Why do some people in Southeast Asia live in tree houses?

• to avoid flood damage

• to feed the elephants

• to see above the trees

What is a benefit of living in a farmer's cave or yaodongs?

• It is cooler in the summer

• it is cooler in the winter

• it is out in the open

What is a veranda?

• a covered porch

• an outer fence

• a raised house

Why do Mongolians build yurt homes?

• so they can easily move with their animals

• they like having two-story homes

• because they cannot be moved

Where are tata somba homes located?

• Africa

• Louisiana

• China

According to myth, the first tongkonan homes were built in

• China

• Africa

• Heaven

Why do people build floating homes?

• so they will rise on the water and not flood

• so they can fly

• so they can sail across the ocean

Reed houses are built by the ___ people.

• Turks

• Uros

• Uzbekis