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WorksheetsChallenges of an urbanising world 2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is urbanisation
A rise in the percentage of people living in an urban area
A rise in the total population of a city
The spread of cites into the countryside
An increase in the amount of people living in villages
What is a conurbation?
A big city
A small city
A city that has grown big enough to merge with other towns or cities
Building built in a straight line along a road
What is urban primacy?
A city full of monkeys
The mayor of a city
A clothes retailer
A city that has more influence than its size suggests
How big is the population of a megacity?
100,000
1,000,000
10,000,000
100,000,000
Why one of these is not a reason for the population decline of Detroit?
De-industrialisation
White flight
Crime
High house prices
What is your case study for a megacity in an emerging country?
India
Mumbai
London
Bihar
Which of these is not a reason for suburbanisation in and around New York City?
Railway bridges and the subway
Road bridges
Lower land values further away from the CBD
Fear of earthquakes
What is a brownfield site?
A field that has been ploughed
A site that has never been built on
A site that has been built on in the past
An area of the floodplain
What is informal housing?
House where you don't have to knock to go inside.
Housed where you don't need to wear a jacket to dinner
Houses that have been planned and have government permission
Houses that poor people build themselves on unwanted land
Which of these is not a reason why people choose to move out of Mumbai to live in Navi Mumbai?
Less air pollution
Fast rail links to the city
Less water pollution and disease
To avoid the 20Twenty Cricket
