Starter quiz
- What is the term for the movement of people from rural areas to cities?
- Urbanisation ✓
- Suburbanisation
- Urban sprawl
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- Which of the following factors contributes to the rapid growth of cities in developing countries?
- Job opportunities and better healthcare ✓
- Better transportation systems in rural areas
- Increased agricultural production
- Lower birth rates in cities
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- Which of the following is a key characteristic of global urban change?
- Decline in city populations worldwide
- Decrease in rural-to-urban migration
- Increase in the number and size of cities worldwide ✓
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- What defines a megacity?
- A city with a population of over 5 million
- A city with a population of over 10 million ✓
- A city that is the capital of a country
- A city that experiences rapid population decline
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- What is a key characteristic of NEEs?
- They have a high standard of living and advanced healthcare systems
- They are in the early stages of industrialisation and have growing economies ✓
- They have stable, low populations
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- Which of the following is an example of a HIC?
- South Africa
- Japan ✓
- Haiti
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Exit quiz
- Match the keywords to their definitions.
- natural increase⇔the birth rate minus the death rate in a population ✓
- push factor⇔a disadvantage of living in an area that creates a desire to migrate ✓
- pull factor⇔an advantage of living in an area, it attracts people to migrate there ✓
- de-industrialisation⇔the loss of industry from an area ✓
- It is important for geographers to remember that the reasons why people migrate are...
- often personal and individual. ✓
- always the same.
- simple and easy to explain.
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- Which of the following are examples of pull factors?
- higher standard of living somewhere else ✓
- improved education and healthcare facilities elsewhere ✓
- economic and social isolation
- catastrophic events such as natural disasters or wars
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- LICs (developing countries) and NEEs (emerging countries) are seeing rapid ______ in their cities.
- 'industrialisation' ✓
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Key learning points
- Migration affects the rate of urbanisation.
- Economic change affects the rate of urbanisation.
- Natural increase affects the rate of urbanisation.
Common misconception
Migrants all have similar reasons for migrating.
Migration is a deeply personal decision. Migrants will have many different, and sometimes contradictory, reasons for migrating.
Keywords
Natural increase - the birth rate minus the death rate in a population
Push factor - a disadvantage of living in an area that creates a desire to migrate
Pull factor - an advantage of living in an area that attracts people to migrate there
De-industrialisation - the loss of industry from an area
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