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What you should know by the end of this lesson:
What you should know by the end of this lesson:
What is urbanisation
Identify Push and Pull factors
Growth of cities from 3000 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
Rural to Urban Migration
Rural to Urban Migration
What is Urbanisation?
Urbanisation is the movement of people from the rural (countryside) to the city (urban).
Urbanisation
Urbanisation
Over half the world’s people now live in towns and cities.
The urban population is higher in developed countries than in developing countries but that is changing...
All over the world cities are becoming more popular, but in developing countries the percentage of people living in cities is rising faster than in developed countries
What are the reasons that people are choosing to move from the Rural to the Urban, it is now your turn to find out...
Digital Workbook AND Paper Jotter Task
Copy down the 3 key definitions for this lesson
Look at the Push and Pull factors task and complete the table
Definitions
Definitions
Urbanisation: The movement of people from the countryside to the city.
Push factors (negative reasons): the reasons people leave an area.
Pull factors (positive reasons): attracts people to an area.
Push and Pull Factors
Push and Pull Factors
Create a table like this
look at the list of 10 push and pull factors
Decide which each is and put it into the appropriate column of your table.
Push and Pull Factors
The possibility of a better quality of life
Long distances to schools and hospitals
Wealthy landowners buy machines and local workers are made unemployed
Doctors, medicines and hospitals
Population growth means food shortages and less land to farm
Lack of basic services such as electricity and running water
Schools available for children’s education
A wide variety of jobs
Natural disasters (flood, famine etc.) destroy crops
Plenty of entertainment and things to do
Check your answers
Check your answers
Push Factors
Push Factors
Long distances to schools and hospitals
Wealthy landowners buy machines and local workers are made unemployed
Population growth means food shortages and less land to farm
Natural disasters (flood, famine etc.) destroy crops
Lack of basic services such as electricity and running water
Pull Factors
Pull Factors
Schools available for children’s education
Plenty of entertainment and things to do
A wide variety of jobs
Doctors, medicines and hospitals
The possibility of a better quality of life
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