G6.REVISION - URBANISATION

1. _______________ do not have proper waste supplies or sanitation. *

• Shanty towns

• Port and Trading towns

• Administrative Towns

2. When people leave their rural communities_____________________may have to close and other services may be cut.

• international businesses

• local businesses

   

•  

  foriegn businesses

3. Most people _____________ live very near their place of work and so they have to travel.

• do

• do not

4. Traffic________________means that the roads become blocked. 

• congestion

   

  unclog

  flow

• congestion

   

  unclog

  flow

• congestion

   

  unclog

  flow

5. Many people also feel ___________________from the rural areas because there is little work and few prospects for improvement.

• pulled

• uprooted

• pushed

6. The _________________ of urban areas include greater range of services like health and education, better facilities including water, sanitation and electrical supplies etc. 

• benefits

   

•  

  disadvantage

• drawbacks

7. The world has recently passed the point where for the first time in history, more people are living in towns and cities than in ________________.*

• metropolitian cities

• countryside

   

•  

  non rural areas

 

8. The 18th and 19th centuries saw a great change in agriculture in a number of countries that were becoming indutrialised. State whether the statement given is correct or incorrect. *

•  

  Correct

• Incorrect

   

9. The ___________________ who lived in urban areas of towns and cities relied much on the greater number of agricultural workers to provide the food.

• more people

• minority of people

   

•  

  majority of people

10. When more and more people want to live in a particular area it makes the price of the land and housing ____________________.*

•  increase

   

•  

  decrease

• low