Lesson Y8-U04-L06

Y8-U04-L06 The Great Migration: Cities on the Rise Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 10

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U04-L06, The Great Migration: Cities on the Rise: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 10: Year 8: Asia in Focus: China and India, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is migration?

    • The natural features of a place such as rivers, hills and climate
    • A season of very heavy rain caused by changing winds across the year
    • The movement of people from one place to live in another
    • The growth in the share of people living in towns and cities over time

  2. What is urbanisation?

    • The growth in the share of people living in towns and cities
    • The number of farms in a country and how much land each one covers
    • A type of rock formed by intense heat and pressure deep inside the Earth
    • The movement of people from cities back to villages in the countryside

  3. What is a push factor in migration?

    • A road that links two cities together and carries heavy traffic
    • A bad thing about a place that makes people want to leave it
    • A tax paid by factory owners to the government each year
    • A good thing about a place that attracts people to move there from elsewhere

  4. Which of these is a pull factor for rural-urban migration?

    • Few jobs in the countryside, with fewer shops and services each year
    • Poor harvests and drought in the village, which leave farmers short
    • Flooding of village farmland, which ruins crops and homes
    • Better hospitals and factory jobs in the city

  5. Which of these is a push factor?

    • City hospitals and schools that offer better services to families
    • Bright city lights and entertainment for young people each evening
    • A poor harvest that leaves farmers short of food
    • Higher wages in factory jobs across the growing industrial cities

  6. On a flow-line map, what does the arrow head show?

    • Where people arrive, the destination
    • The height of the land along the route the people travel
    • The average rainfall of the area around the journey route
    • Where people leave from, the starting point of their journey

  7. On a flow-line map, what does a thicker arrow show?

    • A higher altitude along the route, over steep and rocky land
    • A longer journey by road across many more kilometres
    • A larger number of people moving along that route
    • A more expensive ticket price for the people travelling each day

  8. Roughly what share of China's population lives in towns and cities today?

    • About 90%
    • About 65%
    • About 15%
    • About 36%

  9. Roughly what share of India's population is urban?

    • About 10%
    • About 65%
    • About 36%
    • About 85%

  10. Delhi grew from about 22 million people in 2010 to about 34 million in 2025. How much did it grow?

    • About 34 million
    • About 22 million
    • About 8 million
    • About 12 million

  11. Over how many years did Delhi's growth from 22 million to 34 million take place?

    • 12 years
    • 25 years
    • 15 years
    • 10 years

  12. An arrow runs from a village to Mumbai and is very thick. What does this show?

    • Mumbai has no migrants at all, so the arrow must be a mistake
    • Only one family moved from the village to Mumbai during the year
    • A large number of people are migrating from the village to Mumbai
    • The village is closer to Mumbai than any other place in the region

  13. A thin arrow runs from Mumbai back to a village. What does this show?

    • A small number of people moving from the city back to the countryside
    • A large flow of workers moving from the city to the countryside
    • People being forced out of Mumbai by floods that cover the streets
    • The village having more jobs than the city, so many people move back home each year

  14. Which problem is most likely when a city's population grows very fast?

    • Too few people for the factories to employ, leaving many jobs empty
    • Rural villages growing larger each year as families move back
    • Overcrowding, informal housing and pressure on services
    • Less traffic on the roads, with fewer cars and lorries each day

  15. Why does rapid city growth often lead to informal housing?

    • Housing cannot be built fast enough for the many migrants arriving
    • Cities stop building homes altogether, even as the population grows
    • Migrants prefer to live in villages, where housing is always cheaper
    • Migrants are banned from living in cities, so they must live in camps outside

  16. Which of these is a pull factor that draws people from the countryside to a city?

    • Factory jobs in a growing city
    • Cheap land to farm in the village
    • Drought that ruins farm crops
    • Flooding that destroys village homes

  17. Which situation is an example of a pull factor?

    • Rising sea levels flooding farmland near the coast
    • Jobs in a city's new factories
    • Tax paid by farmers to the government each year
    • A drought that ruins the harvest in the village

  18. Why is moving to a city not always a good choice?

    • Cities always have more farmland than the countryside around them
    • Cities never have any jobs or hospitals to offer migrants or families
    • Cities can bring overcrowding and poor housing, even though jobs and services attract people
    • Moving to a city means a migrant can no longer work at any job, and there are no services for families at all

  19. A geographer says migration in one region is mainly driven by push factors, but in another by pull factors. What does this best show?

    • Migration always has one single cause everywhere in the world today
    • Migration reasons can differ between places, so push and pull must be judged locally
    • Pull factors only matter in the countryside, where jobs are scarce, and push factors matter only in cities
    • Push factors never matter in migration, only pull factors do

  20. Which measure best describes how fast a city is growing?

    • Recording the average temperature in the city centre each year
    • Counting the number of rivers that flow through the city each year
    • Measuring the height of the tallest building in the city centre only, and ignoring the people who live there
    • Comparing population at two points in time and working out the change

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