Lesson Y9-U02-L03

Y9-U02-L03 Why Do People Move to Cities? Push and Pull Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 14

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U02-L03, Why Do People Move to Cities? Push and Pull: 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 a push factor in migration?

    • A bus route for city commuters
    • A tax on goods arriving from another country
    • Something attractive that draws a person to a new place
    • Something bad that drives a person away from where they live

  2. What is a pull factor in migration?

    • A rule that stops people from moving at all
    • Something attractive that draws a person towards a new place
    • The price of land in the countryside
    • Something bad that drives a person away from home

  3. Is 'no jobs in my village' a push factor or a pull factor?

    • Pull
    • Push
    • Neither, because it is a tax
    • Both at the same time, always

  4. Which of these is a pull factor?

    • Drought that has killed the family's crops
    • A nearest hospital that is 60 km away
    • Better-paid factory work in the city
    • A flood that ruins the village

  5. Which of these is a push factor?

    • Bright lights, shops and entertainment
    • Hospitals and clean water in the city
    • Better-paid factory work in the city
    • Drought has killed the family's crops

  6. Which type of factor is 'drought ruins the harvest'?

    • Environmental
    • Cultural and religious, the two factors that shape how families choose where to live
    • Economic
    • Social

  7. Which type of factor is 'higher wages in city factories'?

    • Environmental
    • Social
    • Cultural
    • Economic

  8. Which type of factor is 'more schools and colleges in the city'?

    • Physical
    • Economic
    • Environmental
    • Social

  9. A flood destroyed the village. Which type of factor is this?

    • Economic
    • Cultural
    • Social and family, the two factors that decide which school a child can attend
    • Environmental

  10. Which connective turns a fact into an explanation?

    • The map shows
    • Yesterday was
    • It is a
    • This means

  11. In the drought example, what does the Point step do?

    • Gives a verdict on the whole migration
    • Repeats the drought figures in full
    • Adds a list of other countries
    • Names the push factor clearly

  12. Why must a pull factor be linked to the decision to move?

    • Because pull factors always cause the push factors
    • Because every pull factor happens in the countryside
    • Because pull factors cannot be measured at all, so they never explain any decision that a person makes
    • Because a factor only matters if it changes what the person chooses

  13. Of recent migrants to Lagos: about 40% got a steady job, 25% found decent housing and 55% a higher income. What share got a steady job?

    • About 40 percent
    • About 65 percent
    • About 25 percent
    • About 55 percent

  14. Of recent migrants to Lagos: about 40% got a steady job, 25% found decent housing and 55% a higher income. What share achieved a higher income?

    • About 40 percent
    • About 90 percent
    • About 25 percent
    • About 55 percent

  15. Of recent migrants to Lagos: about 40% got a steady job, 25% found decent housing and 55% a higher income. What share found decent housing?

    • About 40 percent
    • About 25 percent
    • About 75 percent
    • About 55 percent

  16. Of recent migrants to Lagos: about 40% got a steady job, 25% found decent housing and 55% a higher income. Which outcome was hardest to achieve?

    • Decent housing, at about 25 percent
    • Higher income, at about 55 percent
    • Steady job, at about 40 percent
    • All three were achieved equally

  17. What does 'perception' mean when people describe a place?

    • The exact count of people living in a city, collected by a census taken every single year in every district
    • How a place seems to a person, which may differ from reality
    • The price of a train ticket between two cities
    • The height of buildings in a city centre

  18. Why might a pull factor mislead a young migrant?

    • The city can seem full of jobs, but many migrants find low pay or no work
    • Pull factors are never shown in media or stories
    • The city always provides exactly what migrants expect
    • Migrants always return to the countryside after arriving, because cities never offer any long-term work at all

  19. Which reality can follow the pull of a city?

    • Free housing paid for by the government
    • High rents pushing many people into informal housing
    • Full employment for every new migrant
    • Lower rents and spacious homes for all arrivals

  20. Which judgement about Amara's move best weighs push and pull?

    • Push drove the move because drought removed her income, while pull offered hope that may not match reality
    • Push alone caused the move, and the city's jobs had no effect
    • Pull alone caused the move, and push factors such as drought played no part in her decision to leave home at all
    • Neither factor mattered because Amara never intended to move

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