urban environments

Question 1

What do the terms Megacity and Millionaire city mean?

Answer 1

A MILLIONAIRE CITY is a city of more than one million people.
A MEGACITY is a city of more than 10 million people.

Question 2

What are the factors that affect the growth of megacities?

Answer 2

Migration
Population growth / natural increase
Multiplier Effect
Economic development

Question 3

Can you identify the problems which people moving to urban

Question 4

Outline and explain four factors which encourage the growth of megacities.

Answer 4

Multiplier effect
Population growth / natural increase
Economies of scale
Economic development

Question 5

Explain TWO ways by which cities can grow in size.

Answer 5

Multiplier effect. Economic growth encourages population growth. More labour is available and more services needed for an increasing population.

Population growth. Through rural-urban migration. Through natural increase – when birth rates are higher than death rates so population rises.

Economic development. Increase in secondary and tertiary industries leads to economic growth leading to urbanisation.

Question 6

What does the term CORES (or economic core) mean?

Answer 6

CORES are the central region in an economy with good communications and a high population density. They are, for example, megacities.

Question 7

What does the term PERIPHERY mean?

Answer 7

PERIPHERIES are the regions around the core that have not benefitted from globalization, global wealth, and the growth of a megacity.

Question 8

What does the term GLOBAL CITY mean?

Answer 8

A global city is an urban centre that enjoys competitive advantages and serves as a hub within a globalised economic system.

Question 9

What is urbanisation?

Answer 9

the growth and development of urban areas – both an increase in the number, and size, of cities

Question 10

what is Natural Increase