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HANDOUT
1: Physical Map of Mongolia
An important theme in geography is human and environmental interaction.
Geographers try to understand the relationships of places to people and
to other places. All places have some positive and some negative features.
Directions:
Work with a partner and study the map in order to answer the following
questions
- Look carefully
at Mongolia's borders. Mongolia today is a landlocked, isolated country
located between China to the south and Russia to the north. What do
you think are some of the challenges and potential dangers that Mongolia
faces because it is wedged between these two powerful nations?
- With much of the
land covered by deserts and mountains, Mongolia's small population of
2.3 million is spread thinly over the broad steppes and deserts in an
area larger than Alaska. Steppes are dry areas often bordering deserts.
A steppe is generally treeless land and is ideally suited for the pasturing
of flocks and herds. If you lived on the steppe on land that is not
suitable for agriculture, how would you feed yourself and your family?
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