Urbanisation

Question 1

What is urbanisation

Answer 1

The growth in the proportion of people living in urban areas

Question 2

What is a megacity

Answer 2

A city with 10 million or more people living there

Question 3

Where are most megacities located?

Answer 3

Asia

Question 4

What are primate cities

Answer 4

A city that dominates a country. Big businesses and governments locate there and there are lots of jobs.

Question 5

What is national and international migration

Answer 5

Nation migration: Where people move to a city in the same country
International migration: Where people move to a city in a different country

Question 6

Push factors of urban migration?

Answer 6

Shortage of jobs and low wages
Poor quality of life
Poor education and healthcare

Question 7

Pull factors of urban migration?

Answer 7

More jobs
Higher quality of life
Better education and healthcare

Question 8

Why are cities in developing and emerging countries growing?

Answer 8

There are lots of jobs available with higher wages as well as education and healthcare

Question 9

Why are some cities in developed countries declining?

Answer 9

De-industrialisation occurs and people move away to find work

Question 10

What are the 4 job sectors?

Answer 10

Primary (farming,fishing etc.)
Secondary (manufacturing)
Tertiary (services e.g doctors/teachers)
Quaternary (IT industry)

Question 11

What is sub-urbanisation?

Answer 11

Where people move from the middle of a city to the edges