Lesson Y7-U04-L08

Y7-U04-L08 Urbanisation: The Move to the City Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 4

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U04-L08, Urbanisation: The Move to the City: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 4: Year 7: Population and Settlement, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is urbanisation?

    • The number of farms that close in the countryside
    • The amount of rain that falls on a city each year
    • The movement of rivers across a flat plain
    • The growing share of people living in towns and cities

  2. What does 'rural' mean?

    • A large, built-up city centre full of tall offices and busy shops
    • The sea and the coast, where ships and boats travel to other countries
    • A type of census count that is taken every ten years by government staff
    • The countryside, such as villages and farms

  3. What does 'urban' mean?

    • A type of river meander
    • The countryside, such as villages and farms
    • Land that is covered in sea water
    • A built-up area, such as a town or city

  4. What is natural increase?

    • The number of farms in a region rises
    • The height of a city above sea level
    • More babies are born than people die
    • More people move into a city than out

  5. Is 'more jobs in the city' a push factor or a pull factor?

    • A push factor, because it makes people leave the countryside
    • A pull factor, because it attracts people into the city
    • Neither, because jobs never affect where people live
    • A census factor, because it is counted

  6. Is 'drought on the farms' a push factor or a pull factor?

    • A census factor, because drought is counted
    • A push factor, because it drives people off the land
    • A pull factor, because it draws people into farms
    • Neither, because drought never affects farmers

  7. Which of these is a pull factor that attracts people to cities?

    • Few jobs in villages
    • Better schools and hospitals
    • Drought and dry, failing farms
    • War or conflict in the countryside

  8. What does the urban share going from 30% in 1950 to 56% in 2020 show?

    • A fall in the number of people living in cities
    • A fall in the number of people living in the countryside only
    • No change in where people live
    • A rise in the share of people living in cities

  9. The share of the world living in cities was about 30% in 1950, 43% in 1990, 51% in 2010 and 56% in 2020. What was the share in 2010?

    • About 51%
    • About 37%
    • About 43%
    • About 56%

  10. The share of the world living in cities was about 30% in 1950 and about 56% in 2020. By how many percentage points did it rise?

    • About 30 percentage points
    • About 26 percentage points
    • About 56 percentage points
    • About 20 percentage points

  11. Lagos had about 4.8 million people in 1990 and about 10.4 million in 2010. By about how many million did its population grow between these years?

    • About 15.2 million
    • About 5.6 million
    • About 10.4 million
    • About 4.8 million

  12. Between 1990 and 2020, what happened to Lagos's population?

    • It stayed the same at about 10 million
    • It rose, then fell back to 4.8 million
    • It shrank steadily from 4.8 to 14.8 million
    • It rose steadily from about 4.8 to 14.8 million

  13. Which pair of reasons best explains why cities such as Lagos are growing?

    • Villages growing in size and cities closing
    • Pull factors such as jobs, and natural increase
    • Rivers drying up and cities moving to the coast
    • A fall in births and a lack of any jobs

  14. Why do people move from the countryside to a city?

    • Because cities have fewer people and more open land
    • Because farms in the countryside are always wetter
    • Because the countryside has more jobs and better services
    • Because villages have better hospitals and more pay

  15. Which stage in the sequence of urbanisation comes first?

    • The city's population rises through migration
    • Migrants have children, so natural increase adds people
    • Most people live and work in rural farming areas
    • Push and pull factors make people move to the city

  16. Which is the correct order of the stages of urbanisation?

    • Push and pull, then rural farming, then natural increase, then migration
    • Natural increase, then migration, then rural farming, then push and pull
    • Migration, then natural increase, then rural farming, then pull
    • Rural farming areas, then push and pull, then migration, then natural increase

  17. What is a megacity?

    • A farm that grows food for the whole country
    • A village with fewer than 100 people
    • A city with more than 10 million people
    • A river that flows through several cities

  18. Suggest one problem a city like Lagos might face if it grows faster than homes and jobs can be built.

    • Not enough people to pay tax or use services
    • Too many homes and jobs for the people who live there
    • The sea moves away from the city, leaving it dry
    • The city loses all of its rivers and lakes forever

  19. A pupil says urbanisation means people moving away from cities. Which correction is right?

    • Urbanisation means more people living in cities, so the pupil has it reversed
    • Urbanisation means cities are closed down by the government when they grow too large
    • Urbanisation means all people live in the countryside, away from all towns and cities
    • Urbanisation is the same as rural depopulation, where villages slowly lose their people

  20. Why are the world's cities growing so fast? Which explanation is best?

    • Only natural increase matters, as no one moves between places
    • Pull factors, push factors and natural increase all add people to cities
    • Cities are shrinking, so more people must move back to the countryside
    • Cities grow only because of the census count

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