(GC) Migration/urbanisation

Question 1

Name pull factors attracting migrants to urban areas

Answer 1

-more employment opportunities

-migrants can send money
home

• better education/services
• higher quality of life

Question 2

What is the negative impact of migration on rural areas?

Answer 2

• young people move, leaving people unfit to do physical work behind
• children may have to work instead
• less people to farm, less food
• families are split up

Question 3

Give examples for the problem starting with S

Answer 3

(Social)

• high crime rates
• overcrowded houses
• no access to schools/healthcare
• disease spreads easily
• dangerously built structures

Question 4

Give examples for the problem starting with EC

Answer 4

(Economic)

• no/low paying jobs
• unable to afford food/water/clothing/housing
• children being forced to work in factories

Question 5

Give examples for the problem starting with EN

Answer 5

(Environmental)

• waste contaminating water
• dirty streets
• disease spreads easily
• no drains
• unclean water/conditions

Question 6

Name push factors for leaving rural areas

Answer 6

• Rural land taken by logging
• jobs lost as farms are mechanised
• drought/disease makes farming difficult
• war/conflict makes it unsafe

Question 7

What problems do millionaire/big cities face?

Answer 7

• not enough space for buildings
• food/water/resources have to be imported
• transport, congestion and traffic
• energy/pollution
• waste goes to landfills
• not enough houses leads to slums
• pollution affects health/the environment

Question 8

What is the positive impact of migration on rural areas?

Answer 8

• fewer people to feed
• more land
• the migrants send money home
• the success of others encourages people

Question 9

What is the positive impact of migration on urban areas?

Answer 9

• more economically active communities
• more culture/diversity
• skills and knowledge brought in
• better quality of life for migrants

Question 10

What is the negative impact of migration on urban areas?

Answer 10

• less places to live
• more pressure on services
• tensions between newer/older residents
• overcrowding

Question 11

Name the 3 types of problems in slums

Answer 11

• social
• economic
• environmental

Question 12

Name some disadvantages of self help schemes

Answer 12

There is a limit to what can be done.

People have to be willing to help themselves.

If buildings aren’t torn down, there will always be badly made structures.

Question 13

What are self help schemes?

Answer 13

People are provided with materials and low interest loans to start businesses.

People improve their own home, the government does not control what is built there.

• cheap
• easy
• local

Question 14

State 2 facts about self help schemes

Answer 14

Dharavi has 15,000 single room factories.

There are also 5,000 industrial units producing goods like clothes.