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Urbanisation Review

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Urbanisation?

a)

People moving from rural to urban areas

b)

The Urban Sprawl of cities

c)

People moving from urban to rural areas

d)

The movement of people from my state to another

2.

Which of the following is a cause of Urbanisation (choose all that apply)

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

More job opportunities

c)

Avoid pollution and congestion

d)

Increased standard of living

3.

Which of the following is not an effect of urbanisation?

a)

Poverty

b)

Congestion

c)

Decrease in quality of communication (WIFI)

d)

Poor sanitation

4.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of urbanisation?

a)

Better healthcare and education

b)

Pollution and Congestion

c)

More job opportunities

d)

More education opportunities

5.

A century ago, what percentage of the world's population lived in urban areas?

a)

5%

b)

25%

c)

35%

d)

15%

6.

More people are living in cities than ever before and it is predicted the number of megacities will continue to increase.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The megacity with the largest population currently is

a)

Brisbane

b)

Beijing

c)

Tokyo

d)

Dehli

8.

Cities are organised into the following 5 categories

a)

Parkland, Industrial, Commercial, Residential, CBD

b)

CBD, Parks, Urban Sprawl, Migration, Commercial

c)

CBD, Parks, Industrial, Sustainable, Residential

d)

CBD, Residential, Industrial, Migration, Sustainable

9.

Megacities must have a population over 10million people

a)

True

b)

False

10.

The organisation of a cities structures and facilities (buildings and utilities) is known as

a)

Infrastructure

b)

Green Wedge

c)

Suburbinisation

d)

Urban Sprawl

11.

A thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people is ...

a)

Poverty

b)

Slum

c)

Infrastructure

d)

Demographics

12.

Making more land on the outskirts or cities available for new suburbs to be built is ...

a)

Suburbination

b)

Green Wedge

c)

Poverty

d)

Demographics

13.

Encouraging the growth of regional and suburban areas by moving jobs and businesses there, rather than keeping these things concentrated in a CBD of a city is ...

a)

Urban Sprawl

b)

Decentralisation

c)

Urban Wedge

d)

Urban Renewal

14.

Redeveloping existing areas of unused land or buildings within cities to provide housing for new communities ...

a)

Urban Renewal

b)

Urban Sprawl

c)

Urban Wedge

d)

Urbanisation

15.

Choose all of the following that apply to which are push factors to migrate

a)

War

b)

Persecution

c)

Lack of job opportunities

d)

Stable economy

16.

Which of the following is a pull factor for migration?

a)

Poverty

b)

Lack of medical opportunities

c)

Natural disasters

d)

New life and opportunities