Unit 2A - Urban Issues and Challenges - Urbanisation and urban growth

Question 1

Urbanisation definition?

Answer 1

Process by which/ increasing percentage of country’s population comes to live in urban areas

Question 2

Rural to urban migration definition?

Answer 2

Movement of people from countryside to cities, (affected by push and pull factors)

Question 3

Natural increase definition?

Answer 3

Birth rate minus death rate of population

Question 4

Megacity definition?

Answer 4

Urban area with a total population in excess of ten million

Question 5

Difference between push and pull factors?

Answer 5

Push - factors that encourage people to leave an area

Pull - factors that encourage people to move to an area

Question 6

2 things that increase natural increase?

Answer 6

Young people moving to cities and having children, and better healthcare

Question 7

5 social and economic challenges of urban growth in NEEs and LICs?

Answer 7

• housing often badly built and overcrowded
• lack of access to basic services, e.g. clean water, electricity
• unclean conditions and lack of access to health care
• lack of access to education so undeveloped skills
• high levels of unemployment and crime