WorksheetsUrban and Lagos
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 13mins
What word is opposite to rural areas? The word is used for built up areas like town and cities.
(a)
What word means a city with more than 10 million people?
(a)
What term (words) means a city that is important on a global level economically?
(a)
What term (word) means there is an increasing percentage/proportion of people living in urban areas?
(a)
Rapid urban growth is happening in LIDCs. One reason for this is rural to urban migration. What is the other reason? Clue: This term (words) means there is a higher birth rate than death rate.
(a)
What is the name of the megacity we have studied in Nigeria?
(a)
Which of the following statements about Lagos is NOT true?
Lagos is a major financial centre for Western Africa
Lagos has a larger GDP than London
Lagos has a large port
Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria
One consequence or rapid urban growth is the creation of slums. What is the name of the largest slum in Lagos?
(a)
Many migrants to cities like Lagos have no education and therefore work in the (a) economy.
What is the name of the film industry based in Lagos called?
(a)
Lagos has many different groups of migrants from within Nigeria, neighbouring countries, and even some from AC countries. Therefore Lagos has a (a) population. What word goes in the gap?
The three contemporary challenges facing Lagos are: waste management, housing availability and ............. .................? What is the missing contemporary challenge?
(a)
There is a lot of congestion in Lagos. Which contemporary challenge does this statement belong to?
Housing availability
Transport provision
Waste management
One of the sustainable strategies to deal with housing availability is the building of a planned new suburb on Victoria Island. What is the name of this strategy?
(a)
Another sustainable strategy is the use of shipping containers for housing. What are the advantages of this strategy? Choose TWO correct answers.
Cheaper than traditional housing
The shipping containers can corrode if not treated
Only take two weeks to make
There is some snobbery in the local community against such housing
