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Changing Places: Urbanisation Flashcards

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Urbanisation

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The process involving an increase of the proportion of people living in urban areas

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Where is most of the urbanisation occurring

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The developing world

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Percentage of urbanisation is occurring in the developing world

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90%

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Possible pull factors for migration

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Better access to education and health services and employment opportunities

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Possible push factors for migration

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Poverty, displacement, war and famine

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Pull factor

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Factors that attract people to another place

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Push factor

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Factors that motivate people to leave

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Types of migrations

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Intrastate, interstate, internal and international migration

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Migrations classed under internal migration

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Intrastate and interstate migration

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Intrastate migration

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Migration within the same state

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Interstate migration

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Migration to a different state

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Global trend of urbanisation

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The world is becoming more urbanised

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Consquence of urbanisation

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Pollution, megacities and competition for jobs

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The consequences can be categorised under ___

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Economic, social and environmental

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Megacity

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A city with a population over 10 million

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Emigrants

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People who migrate to permanently live in another country

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Strategies to create liveable/sustainable cities

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Improve public transport, preserve natural assets and use clean energy

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Sustainability

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Considering the exhaustion of natural resources in order to ensure future security

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Liveability

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What a place is like to live in, using particular criteria, including environmental quality, crime, education and health and access to services

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How does natural population growth affect urbanisation

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The advancement of medicine and longer lifespans has the population exploding in populated(urban) areas.

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Urban sprawl

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Expanding the size of the city

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Urban consolidation

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Expanding upwards

Y9 Geo (8 decks)

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