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This term refers to the growth of urban areas as cities expand into rural areas.
What is urbanisation?
When people move from one country to another to live or work, it's called this...
What is migration?
Urban areas are usually based here because historically, they have needed to access trade via the sea.
What is the coast?
In the country, there are fewer of these, makes sense as there are less people that need them.
What are services?
If an area is densely populated with human settlement, it's known as this...
What is an urban area?
If someone is fleeing their home country because of war, lack of safety or violence, they are known as this...
What is a refugee?
A megacity are cities with at least this many people.
What is 10 million people?
When city populations grow, they need this, an umbrella term for transport, power, water and sewage treatment.
What is infrastructure?
Many people in urbanised areas live in this kind of housing because of the lack of affordable housing.
What is a slum?
This kind of migration refers to when people move within a country.
What is internal migration?
Tokyo has 37 million residents, making it one of these...
What is a megacity?
In the city, people are likely to find more of these, good for the unemployed.
What are job opportunities?
What are the factors called that might create the desire for people to move to the city from the country?
What are push/pull factors?
People often migrate from the country to these places.
What are cities?
Many megacities with rapidly increasing growth struggle with safe access to this.
What is water?
Name three reasons people move to cities
Job Opportunities, Services, Water, Entertainment, Education, Public transport
The expansion of suburbs at the ends of large cities is known as this, it's spreading out.
What is an urban sprawl?
When migration increases to one area, what happens to the cost of housing in that area?
It increases.
There are this many megacities in Australia.
What is zero?
Contamination of water in over-populated cities can lead to this.
What are diseases?