Study Guide G04 ~ Social Sciences: Geography
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Lesson 1: Places to live
CORE CONTENT Everybody lives somewhere. People live in many different places and environments. A settlement is where a group of people live. Some people live in towns or cities where everyone lives very close to one another in flats or townhouses, while others live in the countryside on farms or plots. Let’s have a look at the various settlements that were mentioned:
A town is a settlement; in other words, people live there. We find different sized towns and that is why we distinguish between a village and a town. A town is big enough to contain many streets, schools, banks, shopping centres and police stations. Image 1: A picture of a small town. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_9ns7cBDuBU/maxresdefault.jpg
A village is smaller than a town and not many people live there. Most of the time people living in a village know each other. A town has more streets, homes and shops than a village and people living in a village would have to travel in order to get to a shopping centre or hospital.
Image 2: A village in Africa. http://api.ning.com/files/PJRyqNb4Aktd-6hGLlDtJmBh6D170bGDrahJszFUcCwhcvaGbm*ZFmwJjjvJe99deKH-cJstOcU4z*CYwXGq3HHUiJS*rZM/hutsofafrica.JPG
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