Geog- Urbanisation

Question 1

What is urbanisation?

Answer 1

It is the growth in the proportion of a country’s population living in urban areas

Question 2

What % of the world population currently live in urban areas?

Answer 2

More than 50%

Which is 3.9 billion people and this is increasing every day

Question 3

What is the rate of urbanisation?

Answer 3

The rate differs between countries that are richer and those who are poorer

Question 4

What does HIC stand for?

Answer 4

High Income Countries

Question 5

What are HICs?

Answer 5

High income countries are more economically developed

Like Japan,UK and Germany

Question 6

Urbanisation happened earlier in _ _ _ than LICs and NEEs spurning the industrial revolution and most of the population now already live in urban areas

Answer 6

HICs

Question 7

HIC s have a very _ _ _ _ rate of urban growth

Answer 7

Slow

Question 8

What does LICs stand for?

Answer 8

Low Income countries

Question 9

What are LIC??

Answer 9

They are less economically developed

Like Ethiopia, Nepal and Afghanistan

Question 10

Do people from LICs live in urban areas??

Answer 10

No, not many of the population in LIC currently live in urban areas

Question 11

Do LICs have faster / slower rates of urbanisation in the world??

Answer 11

LICs have a faster rate of urbanisation

Question 12

What does NEEs stand for?

Answer 12

Newly Emerging Economies

Question 13

What is a NEE??

Answer 13

A NEE are those who here economic development is increasing rapidly
Like Brazil, China,Russia and India

Question 14

What % of NEEs live in urban areas??

Answer 14

Th % varies

Some NEEs such as Thailand, Nigeria and china are experiencing rapid urban growth

Question 15

What is rural urban migration

Answer 15

Rural urban migration is the movement of people from the countryside to the cities

Question 16

What are the push factors of rural urban migration and natural increase?

Answer 16

Natural disasters like flood and earthquake can damage property and farmland which people can’t afford to repair

Mechanisation of agriculture equipment farms require fewer workers so there are fewer jobs

Desertification can make land unproductive so people can no longer support themselves

Conflict can cause people to flee their homes

Question 17

What are the pull factors of rural urban migration and natural increase

Answer 17

There are more jobs in urban areas that are often better paid

Access to better health care and education

To join other family members who have already moved

People think they will have a better quality of life

Question 18

What is natural increase ??

Answer 18

It is when the birth rate is higher than the death rate
I.e.: more people are being born than are dying so the population grows

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