Lesson Y9-U02-L01

Y9-U02-L01 An Urbanising Planet Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 14

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U02-L01, An Urbanising Planet: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 14: Year 9: Urban Worlds: Megacities, Growth and the Future of Cities, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is urbanisation?

    • The building of new roads between two villages
    • The falling number of people living in the countryside alone
    • The rising share of people who live in towns and cities
    • The sale of farmland to a single large company

  2. What is a megacity?

    • A city that covers more than 100 square kilometres of land
    • A town with fewer than 5,000 people in its centre
    • A city with more than 1 million visitors each year
    • A city with more than 10 million people living in it

  3. What is rural-urban migration?

    • Animals moving between farms on a seasonal route
    • Goods moving from a port to a rural village
    • People moving from the countryside to live in a city
    • People moving from a city out to the countryside

  4. Roughly what share of the world's people lived in towns and cities in 1950?

    • About 47 percent
    • About 30 percent
    • About 58 percent
    • About 38 percent

  5. Roughly what share of the world's people lived in towns and cities in 2025?

    • About 58 percent
    • About 68 percent
    • About 50 percent
    • About 38 percent

  6. Around which year did the urban share cross the 50 percent mark?

    • 2050
    • 2000
    • 1975
    • 2007

  7. Roughly what share of the world's people are projected to live in towns and cities by 2050?

    • About 75 percent
    • About 58 percent
    • About 61 percent
    • About 68 percent

  8. From 2000 to 2050, by how many percentage points does the urban share rise?

    • About 31 points
    • About 21 points
    • About 41 points
    • About 11 points

  9. From 1950 to 2050, by how many percentage points does the urban share rise?

    • About 58 points
    • About 48 points
    • About 38 points
    • About 28 points

  10. Which axis of an urbanisation line graph shows the year?

    • The title at the top of the graph
    • The horizontal x-axis along the bottom
    • The key in the corner of the graph
    • The vertical y-axis at the side

  11. Projected extra urban people (millions): Asia 780, Africa 950, Latin America 110, Europe 20, North America 70. Which region adds the most?

    • Europe, at about 20 million
    • North America, at about 70 million
    • Africa, at about 950 million
    • Asia, at about 780 million

  12. Projected extra urban people (millions): Asia 780, Africa 950, Latin America 110, Europe 20, North America 70. Which region adds the fewest?

    • Latin America
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Asia

  13. Which two continents are urbanising fastest today?

    • Asia and Africa
    • Europe and Africa
    • Australia and Antarctica
    • Europe and North America

  14. Why are most future city-growth gains expected in lower-income countries?

    • Richer continents have banned all cities from growing
    • Richer continents are moving their cities into the countryside, leaving rural villages empty and abandoned
    • Lower-income countries have no rural people left at all
    • Those regions are urbanising fastest, while richer continents urbanised long ago

  15. Which two forces grow city populations?

    • Tourism and retirement moves
    • Rainfall and wind speed across the whole of the countryside each season
    • Rural-urban migration and natural increase
    • Tariffs and trade blocs

  16. What does natural increase mean for a city?

    • More roads being built through the countryside
    • More births than deaths within the city itself
    • More tourists visiting the city each year
    • More factories closing in the city centre

  17. Why might a young farmer in rural India move to Bengaluru?

    • Because cities pay no wages to anyone
    • Because farming is banned for young people in India
    • To find steady factory or tech work
    • Because Bengaluru has no jobs at all

  18. Which statement describes the world's urban share trend correctly?

    • The urban share falls steadily from 1950 to 2050 with no change
    • The urban share rises from about 30 percent in 1950 to about 68 percent by 2050, a rise of about 38 points
    • The urban share stays at exactly 50 percent from 1950 to 2050 every year, showing that cities never grew at all
    • The urban share rises only after 2050, with no earlier change

  19. Why is the urban share a useful measure for comparing countries?

    • It counts only the people living in the countryside, which makes it useful for measuring rural poverty
    • It measures the height of the buildings in each city
    • It shows the number of cars in each country
    • It shows the proportion of people living in towns and cities, which can be compared fairly

  20. Why does Europe's urban growth look slow compared with Asia's?

    • Europe urbanised long ago, so most of its people already live in cities
    • Europe has no rural population left to move into cities
    • Europe's cities are too small to grow at all
    • Europe has banned all people from living in cities, so its urban share has stayed fixed for decades

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