The cards Question What is urbanisation? Tap to flip Answer An increase in the proportion of people who live in an urban area. Question What is a megacity? Tap to flip Answer A city with a population of 10 million people or more. Question What is urban primacy? Tap to flip Answer When one city dominates a country or region politically and/or economically. Question Is the world becoming more or less urbanised? Tap to flip Answer More urbanised: the world is becoming increasingly urban. Question Do urbanisation trends (past, present and future) look the same in every global region? Tap to flip Answer No, they vary between global regions. Question Are most of the world's largest cities old or relatively young megacities? Tap to flip Answer Relatively young: most have only grown to a significant size since 2000. Question How is natural increase calculated? Tap to flip Answer Birth rate minus death rate. Question What is a push factor in migration? Tap to flip Answer A disadvantage of living in an area that makes people want to migrate away. Question What is a pull factor in migration? Tap to flip Answer An advantage of living in an area that attracts people to migrate there. Question What is de-industrialisation? Tap to flip Answer The loss of industry from an area. Question Give one factor that affects the rate of urbanisation. Tap to flip Answer Any one of: migration, economic change or natural increase. Question Do all migrants have similar reasons for migrating? Tap to flip Answer No. Migration is a deeply personal decision, and migrants have many different, sometimes contradictory, reasons. Question What does it mean for an urban area to be sustainable? Tap to flip Answer It can be maintained economically, socially and environmentally without compromising the future ability to achieve the same level. Question What is congestion? Tap to flip Answer Overcrowding of traffic in a particular space. Question What is a park and ride system? Tap to flip Answer People park their cars just outside the CBD and then take public transport into the centre. Question Urban sustainability requires the management of which two things? Tap to flip Answer Resources and transport. Question Give one feature of sustainable urban living. Tap to flip Answer For example: energy conservation, water conservation, waste recycling or creating green spaces. Question What can urban transport strategies be used to reduce? Tap to flip Answer Traffic congestion. Question Is reducing speed limits more likely to cause congestion or to keep traffic flowing? Tap to flip Answer To keep traffic flowing through a space, rather than causing prolonged congestion. Question Around which year did humanity first become 'urban'? Tap to flip Answer Around 2007. Question In GIS, what is a filter? Tap to flip Answer The selection of some of the data in a layer so that spatial patterns can be seen more clearly. Question In GIS, what is a pop-up? Tap to flip Answer A read-only display of attribute information (e.g. text, images or charts), often linked to a location. Question What is a choropleth map? Tap to flip Answer A map that shows data for bounded areas (polygons) using shading or colours. Question In GIS, what is a shapefile? Tap to flip Answer A vector data format storing the location, shape and attributes of geographic features, e.g. a country's border. Question How are shapefiles joined to attribute data in a GIS choropleth map? Tap to flip Answer Using place identifiers in the shapefiles. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Geography Unit Patterns of global urbanisation Exam boards AQA England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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