Urban issues and challenges

What is meant by the term ‘natural increase’?

• Birth rate lower than death rate

• Birth rate higher than death rate

• Birth and death rate both high

• Birth and death rate both low

a population over 10 million is called a __________ city

Which of these are pull factors for rural to urban migration in an NEE?

• War in the area

• Secondary/tertiary higher paid jobs in RIO

• Better access to healthcare

• High rates of unemployment

What is meant by urban sprawl?

• More people moving to towns and cities

• A population over 10 million people

• Towns and cities getting smaller

• Overspill of city into countryside

An area where people live but then travel into a city to work each day is called a ______________ settlement.

Select the 4 cities shown on the map

• Edinburgh

• Newcastle

• Liverpool

• Cardiff

• Birmingham

Give one economic impact of traffic congestion.

• Increase in air pollution

• Increase in lung diseases by people breathing in pollution

• People late to work so loosing money

• Damage to wildlife habitats

Give three features of sustainable urban living.

• Green scheme recycling

• Urban greening

• High rates of pollution

• Bi articulated busses

Describe the location of Curitiba.

• North Brazil

• South west Nigeria

• South East Brazil

• North west Nigeria

Give 2 environmental opportunities in Rio.

• Water supply - 300km of pipework laid to reach the slums

• Nurses test for diseases and give treatment in Santa Marta favela

• The schools of tomorrow programme

• Power plant using methane gas has been set up, consumes 30 tonnes of rubbish a day