Geography Year 8

Question 1

Urbanisation

Answer 1

The process of social and economic change that takes places as increasing numbers of people move from rural areas

Question 2

Industrial Age

Answer 2

Industrial Age changed the way in which the world worked as now less people were needed for farming jobs, so they moved from rural to urban

Question 3

Urban sprawl

Answer 3

Urban sprawl is the growth of a city onto productive farming lands on the city fringes

Question 4

New growth zone

Answer 4

Newly developing house estate

Alkimos

Question 5

Residential city

Answer 5

Housing and facilities eg. Mindarie

Question 6

Parkland and nature

Answer 6

Sport and recreation areas

Kings park

Question 7

CBD

Answer 7

Central business district= offices, shops, and is accessible

Question 8

Rural

Answer 8

Urban fringe - edge of city and is where rural and urban land meets eg. Mundarian

Question 9

Outer business district

Answer 9

Commercial district on main roads eg, lakeside shopping centre

Question 10

Economic advantages of cities

Answer 10

Work
Industry 
Trade
Customers 
Friends

Question 11

Disadvantage

Answer 11

Affects on environment (pollution, ruin native land)
Housing price 
Traffic  
Crowded 
Cost 
Crime rate

Question 12

Mega city

Answer 12

A city with a population over 10 million

Question 13

Seoul

Answer 13

25 million people
North Korea
Advanced transport

Question 14

New Delhi

Answer 14

India
25 million
Worst air quality
Slums

Question 15

Jakarta

Answer 15

30 million
Slums
Lack of fresh water

Question 16

Tokyo

Answer 16

37 million
Joke to the busiest intersection in the world
Subway trains
Low crime and pollution

Question 17

Asia

Answer 17

Is home to some of the largest and fastest growing cities

Question 18

Urban slums

Answer 18

• struggling to cope with urban explosion
• providing people with basics is getting hard
  Slums- poor housing with little assistance from government
  -4 million people in slums
  Reasons :
  Government, not enough money, pollution, over populated

Question 19

Population spewed in Australia

Answer 19

Most unevenly spread
85% live near coast
Cities located near natural and/or built in features that we need the most
Towns were originally settled for trade and communication

Question 20

PQE

Answer 20

Pattern
Quantify
Exception

Question 21

Climate in Australia

Answer 21

Australia’s extreme climate in some areas play a role in the reason people migrate closer to the beach and further away from the inland areas

Question 22

Pull of cities on Australia’s population

Answer 22

The pull of cities means that is has benefits such as job opportunities and education with makes people live in cities over rural areas

Question 23

Suburbanisation

Answer 23

Making more land on the outskirts

Question 24

Urban renewal

Answer 24

Redevelopment of already existing areas

Question 25

Decentralisation

Answer 25

The process of encouraging population growth and job creation in suburbs and smaller regional towns or cities rather than in the central areas

Question 26

More about decentralisation

Answer 26

Companies move their operations from capital cities to more regional agreed Spreading out multiple business so the CBD isn’t as crowded

Question 27

Advantage of decentralisation

Answer 27

Relief cost of homes and things Traffic isn’t as bad Relieve some Damage to environment

Question 28

Disadvantages of decentralisation

Answer 28

Difficult an expensive to get companies to move