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What is a megacity?
A city over 10 million people
The process where more of the world is living in an urban area is called?
Urbanisation
What is a settlement?
A place where people live
What is industry?
manufacturing, like the car industry.
What was a key step in the growth of settlements?
Farming
What was a key factor in urbanization?
The Industrial revolution
Explain what urban is
built up areas, large towns and cities.
Explain what rural is.
mainly villages, small towns and the country side.
What are slums?
area of very poor housing
What is urban sprawl?
unplanned growth outwards (a city spreading out), expansion of cities and towns.
What does CBD stand for?
Central Business District
What country has the most megacities in the world?
China
What is a push factor?
push people away or out of a place.
What is a pull factor?
attract people to a place.
What is a squatter settlement?
Illegally built structures or areas of housing that people live in or when people take over abandoned buildings and/or land to live in.
What does development mean?
A process of change that goes on in a city or country to improve peoples lives.
