REMAT: Geography Slums (Y5)

Which of the following terms is another word for a slum?

• montanha

• rio

• favela

• cidade

Approximately how many people in the world live in slums?

• between 900 million and 1.6 billion

• between 9 million and 160 million

• between 90 thousand and 16 million

True of false: In slums, it is easy and cheap to get clean water.

• True

• False

True or false: In slums, there is often a lot of overcrowding.

• True

• False

Match each slum with the country in which it is located.

• Rocinha,
  Rio de Janeiro

• 
• Khayelitsha, Cape Town

• 
• Dharavi, Mumbai

• 
• Orangi Town, Karachi

• 
• Kibera, Nairobi

• 

Slums usually only have ​​ (a)   water and waste water is often taken away by ​ (b)   . They usually do not have ​ (c)   so the streets are dirty. The people live and work in ​ (d)   conditions for ​ (e)   wages.

• dirty
• rivers or streams.
• clean
• sewers
• rubbish collection
• dangerous
• low
• safe
• high

Houses in slums are usually.... PICK TWO

• well-built and safe

• shacks that offer little protection from bad weather

• cramped

• spacious

Slums can be improved: match the problem to the solution...

• More police patrols

• Threat of eviction

• Government allow people to live there

• Frequent violent crimes

• Schools set up by charities

• Lack of education

• Government provide bricks and cement

• Poorly constructed

  housing