Urban Areas

Question 1

What is a settlement?

Answer 1

A settlement is a place where people live

Question 2

What is a megacity?

Answer 2

A city with over 10 million residents

Question 3

What is an example of a temporary settlement?

Answer 3

A refugee camp

Question 4

What is the name of the piece of land a settlement is built on?

Answer 4

A settlement site

Question 5

What are wet point sites?

Answer 5

Sites with a good water source

Question 6

What is a dry point site?

Answer 6

A site away from flooding

Question 7

What is a defensive site?

Answer 7

A site often found on higher ground where enemies could be seen from a distance

Question 8

What is at the top of a settlement hierachy?

Answer 8

Conurbation

Question 9

What is second-to-the-top of a settlement hierachy?

Answer 9

City

Question 10

What is third-to-the-top of a settlement hierachy?

Answer 10

Large town

Question 11

What is in the middle of a settlement hierachy?

Answer 11

Small town

Question 12

What is third-to-the-bottom of a settlement hierachy?

Answer 12

a village

Question 13

what is second-to-the-bottom of a settlement hierachy?

Answer 13

A hamlet

Question 14

what is at the bottom of a settlement hierachy?

Answer 14

isolated dwelling

Question 15

What is population distribution?

Answer 15

How people are spread out over the world

Question 16

What is urbanisation?

Answer 16

Urbanisation is the movement of population from rural areas to urban areas

Question 17

What are push and pull factors?

Answer 17

Reasons that make people either move away from a rural area or move to an urban area

Question 18

What would be seven push factors?

Answer 18

food and water shortages, lack of shelter, lack of jobs, natural disasters, war, lack of internet

Question 19

What would be seven pull factors?

Answer 19

healthcare, education, job oppurtunites, safety, transport links, internet, relations living in cities or urban areas

Question 20

How is the population distributed over England?

Answer 20

England- 84%
Wales- 5%
Scotland- 8.5%
Northeren Ireland- 3%

Question 21

How do you calculate population density?

Answer 21

population/area size

Question 22

What is the approximate population density for the UK?

Answer 22

260 people per square kilometre

Question 23

What is Australia’s population density?

Answer 23

2 people per square kilometre

Question 24

What is London’s population density?

Answer 24

4932 people per square kilometre

Question 25

What is Scotland’s populaton density?

Answer 25

65 people per square kilometre

Question 26

What are the most densely populated areas of the UK?

Answer 26

London and Birmingham

Question 27

What is migration?

Answer 27

Migration is the movement of people from one place to another.

Question 28

What is an emigrant?

Answer 28

people who leave their country

Question 29

What is an immigrant?

Answer 29

people who move into another country

Question 30

What is the GNI of a HIC?

Answer 30

higher than 12,746

Question 31

What is the GNI of a LIC?

Answer 31

lower than 1045

Question 32

What is an NEE?

Answer 32

A country that has begun to experience high rates of economic development, usually with rapid industrialisation

Question 33

What are the BRICS countries

Answer 33

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

Question 34

Are the BRICS countries LICs, NEEs or HICs?

Answer 34

NEEs

Question 35

What are the MINT countries?

Answer 35

Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey

Question 36

What does GNI mean?

Answer 36

A measurement of economic activity- the total value of goods and services produced by a country, plus money earned from and paid to other countries