Year 10 Urbanisation 10.7

Urbanisation is

• The process of urbaning

• When an increasing percentage of a country's population lives in cities

• When more people move from one city to another

• When the size of cities grow

Push factors are:

• Negative
• Positive
• Pull factors
• attracting people to urban areas.

An example of a pull factor to urban area is:

• Better social life

• Shortage of houses

• More space to farm

• something that forces us to move to an urban area.

people coming from other countries

• National Migration

• Urbanisation

• International Migration

• Urban Change

migrants coming from within the country

• Natural Increase

• National Migration

• International Migration

• Rural-Urban Migration

Slum housing, unreliable power systems, congested roads and poor public transport, inefficient ports and inadequate schools.

• rapid urbanisation challenges

• rapid urbanisation benefits

Convenience of goods and services, increased literacy and better health, availability of public transportation

• Urbanisation benefits

• Urbanisation challenges

Chances for people to improve their standard of living through employment are:

• social opportunities

• environmental opportunities

• economic opportunities

Which of the following are push factors (reasons people leave an area)? - tick all that apply

• Civil War

• High Crime

• More Wealth

• Crop Failure

Which of the following are pull factors (encourage people to more to an area)? - tick all that apply.

• More wealth

• High crime

• Good climate

• Better services