Urban Environments Key Terms Assessment

Cities and towns are growing due to an increasing percentage of the population living in urban settlements. What is this process called?

• Urbanisation

• Counter-urbanisation

• Suburbanisation

• Rural to urban migration

What is the difference between suburbanisation and counterurbanisation?

• Counterurbanisation describes the process where cities shrink in size and suburbanisation is when they grow in size.

• Suburbanisation is when cities grow outwards and counterurbanisation is when people move from the city to the countryside.

• Counterurbanisation is a process whereby the building heights and densities are higher on the outskirts and suburbanisation is the opposite.

• Suburbanisation is the increase in the percentage of people moving to the city and counterurbanisation is when people move from the city to the rural areas.

In HICs, it is common for people to live in towns outside the city and travel in for work. These people are known as...

• Commuter towns

• Working commercers

• Commuterisations

• Commuters

How many people must live in a city to be classed as a mega city?

• 10 million or more

• 10.1 million or more

• 9 million or more

• 9.9 million or more

What is social polarisation?

• When the standard of living is below the majority of people in a city, e.g. Hong Kong

• When extreme wealth and poverty exist in the same urban area.

• When different variables are taken into acount and a score is produced.

• When some low income parts of society are segregated from the rest of the urban area.

Define the term deprivation

• A low standard of living which cannot be seen anywhere else in the urban area.

• A standard of living above that of the majority of people in a particular city, region or country.

• A standard of living where people do not have access to healthcare and are exposed to pollution.

• A standard of living below that of the majority of people in a particular city, region or country.

Which of the following is a feature of cities in Low Income Country?

• Informal Sector

• Population of over 10 million

• Squatter Settlements

• Retail Parks

The quality of life index takes into account eight different variables. Which of the following is not a variable?

• Healthcare

• Pollution

• Safety

• Education

Define the term informal sector

• Types of work that are not officially recognised. People work for themselves on the streets of the cities. E.g. Shoe shining

• Types of work that are officially recognised. People work for themselves on the streets of the cities. E.g. Shoe shining

• Types of work that are not officially recognised. People work for each other on the streets of the cities. E.g. Baker

• A sector of society that sometimes does not pay tax on the money they earn doing jobs on the street.

Site and service is when...

• People in squatter settlments are given tools and training to improve their home in exchange for servies such as water and electricity.

• People are given the chance to rent or buy a piece of land that has access to services such as water and electricity.

• People are given low cost loas to be able to afford to pay for water and electrivity services.

• People in the countryside are given opportunities and life here is improved.