Year 8 Geography Mega Cities

Mega cities

• exist on every continent
• have populations greater than 10.million
• are always capital cities
• are concentrated in Western Europe

An increase in the proportion of people living in cities.

• Urbanisation.
• Citification
• population growth

According to National Geographic, what percentage of the world's population will be living in urban areas by 2050

• 70%
• 75%
• 80%
• 85%

The most urbanised country on earth is

• Australia
• The USA
• China
• Singapore

In 1975 there were three megacities in the world. They were

• Mexico City, New York, Tokyo
• Tokyo, New York, London
• London, Beijing, New York
• Mexico City, Cairo, London

A poor, crowded part of a city is called...

• House
• Slum
• Downtown
• Settlement House

a term used to describe a built up area such as a town or a city

• urban

• urbanisation

• rural

• internal migration

the process of social and economic change that takes place as increasing numbers of people move from rural areas (eg farms) to urban areas (eg cities)

• urbanisation

• urban

• push factor

• pull factor

a term used to describe an area located outside cities and towns, such as farming or agricultural areas

• rural

• internal migration

• external migration

• urban

negative factor that pushes people away from a certain place.

• push factor

• pull factor

• international migration

• refugee