Urbanisation Flashcards
What is rural to urban migration
Moving from the countryside to a city, town or shanty town
What is a mega city?
A city with at least 10 million people
What is the largest mega city and how many people live there
Tokyo , 37 million
What is urbanisation
An increasing percentage of a country’s population in towns or cities
What is an urban area
A built up area (town or city)
What is a rural area
The countryside
Is the following statement true: richer countries often are more urbanised due to better job opportunities
Yes
Give some push factors
Little education
Isolated
Less job opportunities
Give some pull factors
Better jobs
Healthcare benefits
Near everything
Education
Give some characteristics of shanty towns
Poor
Long hours of work for little pay
Densely populated and overcrowded
Close knit communities
Improve homes using DIY
Informal sector
Violent
drug gangs
List two ways in which shanty towns could be improved
More stable housing
Police visits
What is GIS
Geographical Information Systems-
Computer based maps
List some advantages of using GIS
Compact storage
Layers make it flexible
Easily backed up
Lots of display choices
Data exists in layers making it easy to isolate individual layers
What are the two types of data
Vector and Raster data
What is vector data
Data made up of points which may be joined together. It is used to show map features on top of the background
What is Raster data
It is shown in pixels usually used to construct the background map
