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 urbanised. Question Are most of the world's largest cities old megacities or relatively young ones? Tap to flip Answer Relatively young: most have only grown to a significant size since 2000. Question What is natural increase? Tap to flip Answer The birth rate minus the death rate in a population. Question What is a push factor in migration? Tap to flip Answer A disadvantage of living in an area that creates a desire 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 e.g. 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; migrants have many different, sometimes contradictory, reasons. Question What is an economic sector? Tap to flip Answer A category of economic activity in which jobs are grouped by their type of work. Question How many sectors of employment are there? Tap to flip Answer Four. Question What is formal employment? Tap to flip Answer Employment that is officially recognised and regulated. Question What is informal employment? Tap to flip Answer Employment that has no official recognition and no regulation. Question Does working in informal employment mean a worker is unskilled? Tap to flip Answer No. Unregulated work does not mean unskilled; workers may lack official certification but still have expertise. Question What is suburbanisation? Tap to flip Answer The movement of people from more central urban areas to the outskirts of an urban area. Question What is urban sprawl? Tap to flip Answer The unplanned, often rapid, growth of urban areas into the surrounding countryside. Question What is regeneration? Tap to flip Answer Investing money in poorer and derelict urban areas where there was once a sustainable economy in industry. Question Give one process that leads to urban change. Tap to flip Answer e.g. urbanisation, suburbanisation, de-industrialisation, regeneration or counter-urbanisation. Question Can an urban area experience more than one process of urban change at a time? Tap to flip Answer Yes. In reality the processes often overlap rather than following a set timeline. Question What is commercial land use? Tap to flip Answer Land use for areas that trade goods and services. Question What does CBD stand for? Tap to flip Answer Central business district: the commercial centre of an urban area. Question What is a brownfield site? Tap to flip Answer Land that was formerly used for something but is now abandoned or derelict. Question What is a greenbelt? Tap to flip Answer A ring of land around some UK urban areas where new building is regulated to prevent urban sprawl. Question Give one category of urban land use. Tap to flip Answer e.g. commercial, industrial or residential. Question Give one factor that influences urban land use. Tap to flip Answer e.g. accessibility, availability, cost or planning regulations. Question Around which year did humanity first become 'urban'? Tap to flip Answer Around 2007. 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 filter? Tap to flip Answer The selection of some data in a GIS layer to show spatial patterns 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, charts), often linked to a location. 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. country borders. Question In a GIS choropleth map, how are shapefiles joined to attribute data? 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 Urban change Exam boards Edexcel B 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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