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Key Terms: Urban Issues & Challenges Practice Questions

Question 1

2 marks

This question is about the growth of urban areas.

(a)

Which one of the following is the correct definition of urbanisation?

Shade one circle only.

A The movement of people from one country to another.

B An increase in the proportion of a country's population that lives in urban areas.

C The increase in the total number of people living in a city.

D The spread of a built-up area into the surrounding countryside.

(b)

State the population size a city must reach to be classed as a megacity.

Question 2

3 marks

Many people in LICs and NEEs move from the countryside to live in cities.

(a)

Complete the table below. For each reason, write either push factor or pull factor in the right-hand column.

Reason for moving to the city Push or pull factor?
Crops have failed because of drought in the village
There are more jobs in city factories
Farm land has been lost to large mechanised farms
The city has better hospitals and schools
(b)

What is meant by natural increase?

Question 3

3 marks

A UK city council needs land for 500 new homes. It is considering two sites.

Site 1 – a disused factory and its car park in the inner city.

Site 2 – farmland on the edge of the city, beyond the last row of houses.

(a)

Which site, 1 or 2, is a brownfield site?

(b)

What is meant by a greenfield site?

(c)

State one advantage of building the new homes on a brownfield site.

Question 4

2 marks

In many cities in LICs and NEEs, rapid urban growth means that housing cannot be built quickly enough.

(a)

What is meant by a squatter settlement?

(b)

Give one other term used for areas of poor-quality, overcrowded housing in cities.

Question 5

2 marks

An area of old docks in a UK city has been left empty for 20 years. The warehouses are boarded up, fences are broken and the land is covered in rubble.

(a)

What is meant by dereliction?

(b)

The city council plans to carry out urban regeneration on the site. What is meant by urban regeneration?

Question 6

2 marks
(a)

What is meant by urban greening?

(b)

Give one example of green space found in a city.