Urban Change

Question 1

What is urbanisation?

Answer 1

An increasing percentage of a country’s population living in urban rather than rural

Question 2

what is rural to urban migration?

Answer 2

people moving from the country side to towns and cities

Question 3

what are some rural push factors?

Answer 3

•natural disasters can damage property and farmland which is costly. rural areas can find it harder to recover as they tend to have fewer resources
•rural areas are isolated due to poor roads
•the lack of services

Question 4

What are some urban pull factors?

Answer 4

•there are more jobs in urban areas that are better paid
•there’s access to better healthcare and educational opportunities
•other family members may have already moved to an urban area

Question 5

why is urban growth happening faster in LICs?

Answer 5

because of industrialisation

Question 6

what is a megacity?

Answer 6

A city with more than 10million people living in it

Question 7

what is natural increase?

Answer 7

where the birth rate is higher than the death rate. People living in cities tend to be younger so will therefore have more children