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🏙️ Urbanisation & Megacities – Year 8
Geography · Year 8 (KS3) — why cities grow, push and pull factors, megacities and life in squatter settlements
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What does the term 'urbanisation' mean?
People moving from cities to the countryside
A fall in the number of people in a country
The building of new roads between villages
An increase in the share of people living in towns and cities
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How many people must a city have to be called a megacity?
More than 10 million
More than 5 million
More than 1 million
More than 50 million
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Which of these is a push factor that makes people leave the countryside?
Better hospitals in the city
More well-paid factory jobs in the city
Good schools in the city
Crops failing because of drought
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Which of these is a pull factor attracting people to a city?
Lack of electricity in villages
Better access to healthcare
Poor harvests in rural areas
Conflict over farmland
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Which of these cities is a megacity?
Cardiff
Birmingham
Lisbon
São Paulo
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Dharavi, one of the largest squatter settlements in Asia, is in which city?
Mumbai
Kolkata
Karachi
Delhi
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Why do diseases such as cholera spread easily in many squatter settlements?
Lack of clean water and proper sanitation
Heavy traffic on busy roads
Too few schools in the area
Air pollution from nearby factories
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Where in the world is the rate of urbanisation fastest today?
In Australia and New Zealand
In HICs, mainly in Western Europe
In LICs and NEEs, mainly in Africa and Asia
In HICs, mainly in North America
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Residents are given a plot with water and electricity and then build their own homes. What is this scheme called?
Urban regeneration
Site and service scheme
Gentrification
Green belt policy
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Besides rural–urban migration, what is the other main cause of rapid city growth in LICs?
Natural increase
Counter-urbanisation
An ageing population
A rising death rate
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