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Factors affecting the growth of cities

I can evaluate the factors that affect urbanisation.

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Edexcel B

Factors affecting the growth of cities

I can evaluate the factors that affect urbanisation.

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Key learning points

  1. Migration affects the rate of urbanisation.
  2. Economic change affects the rate of urbanisation.
  3. Natural increase affects the rate of urbanisation.

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

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.


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Allow students the opportunity to hear different migration stories first hand. This will substantiate the theory and avoid placing all migrants together in one context.
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6 Questions

Q1.
What is the term for the movement of people from rural areas to cities?
Correct answer: Urbanisation
Suburbanisation
Urban sprawl
Q2.
Which of the following factors contributes to the rapid growth of cities in developing countries?
Correct answer: Job opportunities and better healthcare
Better transportation systems in rural areas
Increased agricultural production
Lower birth rates in cities
Q3.
Which of the following is a key characteristic of global urban change?
Decline in city populations worldwide
Decrease in rural-to-urban migration
Correct answer: Increase in the number and size of cities worldwide
Q4.
What defines a megacity?
A city with a population of over 5 million
Correct answer: 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
Q5.
What is a key characteristic of NEEs?
They have a high standard of living and advanced healthcare systems
Correct answer: They are in the early stages of industrialisation and have growing economies
They have stable, low populations
Q6.
Which of the following is an example of a HIC?
South Africa
Correct answer: Japan
Haiti

4 Questions

Q1.
Match the keywords to their definitions.
Correct Answer:natural increase,the birth rate minus the death rate in a population
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the birth rate minus the death rate in a population

Correct Answer:push factor,a disadvantage of living in an area that creates a desire to migrate
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a disadvantage of living in an area that creates a desire to migrate

Correct Answer:pull factor,an advantage of living in an area, it attracts people to migrate there
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an advantage of living in an area, it attracts people to migrate there

Correct Answer:de-industrialisation,the loss of industry from an area
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the loss of industry from an area

Q2.
It is important for geographers to remember that the reasons why people migrate are...
Correct answer: often personal and individual.
always the same.
simple and easy to explain.
Q3.
Which of the following are examples of pull factors?
Correct answer: higher standard of living somewhere else
Correct answer: improved education and healthcare facilities elsewhere
economic and social isolation
catastrophic events such as natural disasters or wars
Q4.
LICs (developing countries) and NEEs (emerging countries) are seeing rapid in their cities.
Correct Answer: industrialisation