Living Like a Turtle
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It is known that turtles carry their houses on their backs. But did you know that there are also people who move their house from place to place? Houses that move are built for different reasons.
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Some people like traveling from place
to place with their house and sleeping
in their bed every night. These people live in a caravan. A caravan is a house
on wheels and it has many things
you would expect to see in a house:
a kitchen, a bed, a bathroom and
furniture.
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In Mongolia, some people live in a
round house made of fabric*. This
type of house is called a ger. Families
that live in a ger own cows and goats.
The animals eat the grass around the
house. When there is no more grass
for the animals to eat, the family
carries the ger to a new place where
their animals can find food.
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Another house that can be moved is
the bulla, which is found in Uganda.
This is a round house made of straw,
which is very light and easy to carry
from place to place. When the weather
changes and it rains, people carry their
bulla to dry areas. They stay there
until the weather changes again.
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Native American Indians used to live
in triangular-shaped tents called
tepees. These houses were usually
made of pieces of animal skin covering
long sticks of wood, and were easy
to move. Indian families moved their
tepee to find better places to hunt
animals for food. Indians don’t live in
tepees anymore. Today they are only
used for special events.
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People build different types of houses for all kinds of reasons. Whether they live in a house that can be moved or not, most people agree that there is no place like home.
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Published: Jan 25, 2017
Latest Revision: Jan 25, 2017
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