Urbanisation Definitions
Urban Sprawl
What is the outward spread of a city and its suburbs as they grow?
Employment opportunities, entertainment, medical facilities, education and higher living standards
What are pull factors?
Internal Migration
What is the movement of people within a country?
Ghost Cities
What are cities that have been built with no one living there?
What is Austrlai's closest neihghbour?
Papua New Guinea
Megacity
What is a city with more than 10 million people called?
Tokyo,Delhi, Shanghai,Mumbai,Beijing,Dhaka,London,New York
What are examples of megacities?
International Migration
What is the movement of people between countries on a permanent or semi -permanent basis?
Stress,Crime,Isolation
What are some disadvantages of living in a large city?
Waht is the capital city of Western Australia?
Perth
Population density
What is the number of people per square kilometre called?
World City
What is a city called when it is an important centre of global economic activity, such as London,New York?
Tree changer
What is a person who relocates from the city to the to a rural or regional centre?
Carbon emissions, urban heat island effect and clean water shortages
What are some environmental impacts of large cities?
How many hours in 5 days?
120
urbanisation
What is the process called by which an increasing proportion of a population lives in towns and cities?
landlessness,poverty,war,desertification
What are push factors?
Sea Changer
What is a person called who relocates from the city to the coast?
Quality of Life?
What is the happiness, well being and satisfaction that a person experiences called?
Where would you find the Kimberleys?
Western Australia
Push and Pull Factor
What are the factors that cause people to leave the places where they live and the factors that draw people to places?
Developing world
What is the part of the world called where the poor and middle income mainly live?
Counterurbanisation
What is the process called whereby people move from the city to rural areas?
Slum
What is an informal settlement built by the poor using material from the streets?
What is the current poulation of Australia?
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