Urban Issues

Question 1

What is Rural-urban migration?
What is natural increase?
What are push-pull factors?

Answer 1

Rural-urban migration is the movement of people from countryside into towns and cities.
Natural increase is when the birth rate is higher than the death rate.
Push-pull factors are pushing people away from the countryside and pulling them towards towns and cities.

Question 2

What are some push-pull factors?

’-‘ are pull factors
‘~’ are push factors

Answer 2

~Farming is hard and poorly paid
~Poor harvests may lead to malnutrition or famine
~Often there are no secondary schools and only primary schools
-A higher standard of living is possible
-There are more well paid jobs
-Public transport is better

Question 3

What is T.E.A in graphs?

Answer 3

Trends- is there a pattern or constant rate/number?
Estimates- using the trend, estimate a number past the graph
Anomalies- is there any figures that break the pattern/trend

Question 4

What is urbanisation?

Answer 4

Urbanisation is when people move from the rural areas to urban areas. This increases the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas.

Question 5

What does HIC mean?
What does NEE mean?
What does LIC mean?

Answer 5

HIC - High Income Countries -
NEE - Newly Emerging Economy
LIC - Low Income Countries