URBANISATION

Question 1

What is urbanisation?

Answer 1

is the process where an increasing proportion of the population lives in towns or cities resulting in their growth (55% of the world’s population)

Question 2

What are the 2 things that causes urbanisation + megacities ?

Answer 2

• natural increase : more people are being born than are dying = population growth
• rural-urban migration : more people are leaving the countryside & moving to cities = due to push + pull factors

Question 3

What are 3 push factors of urbanisation + megacities?

Answer 3

• natural disasters = rural areas can find it harder to recover as they can have fewer resources
• lack of opportunities = no education, employment
• famine = starvation due to crop failure (could be because of desertification)

Question 4

What are 3 pull factors of urbanisation + megacities?

Answer 4

• more jobs well paid and they are varied
• access to services = access to better healthcare & educational opportunties
• stability = people think they will have a better quality of life

Question 5

What is a megacity + examples?

Answer 5

a city with a population of over 10 million people eg: Tokyo, New York and Rio de Janerio