PRE

Question 1

What percent of the
world’s population is
living in urban
areas?

Answer 1

The percentage of the world’s population living in urban areas is more than 50%.

Question 2

What percent of the
world’s population
will live in urban
areas by 2030?

Answer 2

60% of the world’s total
population will live in urban
areas by 2030.

Question 3

What are the causes
of urban growth?

Answer 3

Causes of urban growth
include rural-urban migration
and natural increase of
population (birth rate minus
death rate)

Question 4

What are push factors?

Answer 4

Push factors refer to the
negative aspects of an area
that drive people to move to
other areas. Pull factors, on
the other hand, are positive
aspects of an area that
attract people to migrate to
that area.

Question 5

Give two examples
of push and pull
factors.

Answer 5

Push Factors - high crime
rates, lack of job
opportunities and low wages.

Pull Factors - better standard
of living, high wages, more job
opportunities.

Question 6

What is
urbanisation?

Answer 6

It is a process in which there
is an increasing proportion of
a country’s population living
in urban areas.

Question 7

Why is there a high
rate of urbanisation
in low-income
countries?

Answer 7

Most people in low-income
countries are living in rural
areas, so there is a tendency
for most of them to move to
urban areas, which makes
rural-urban migration very
high.

Question 8

What makes Lagos
an important city in
Nigeria?

Answer 8

Lagos remains the centre of
trade and commerce in the
country, where 80% of
industries are located in the
city. It also has the highest
GDP growth in Africa.