Year 8 Re-Cap Quiz!

What did we study last term?

Urbanisation is...

• An increasing proportion of a population lives in cities.

• An increasing proportion of a population lives on farms.

• Farming work replaces highly skilled work.

• Air pollution exceeds safe levels in urban areas.

Push Factors...

• cause people to fall down the stairs.

• cause people to leave their [rural] homes.

• cause people to further educate themselves.

• cause people to increase their workload.

True or False:

Pull factors are positive factors that tend to pull people toward an area (like magnets!)

• True

• False

A megacity has how many people (roughly) living in it?

• More than 1 million

• More than 10 million

• More than 50 million

• More than 100 million

Problems that megacities experience can be categorised into 3 groups... What are they?

• Economic, Political and Financial

• Social, Economic and Environmental

• Psychological, Sociological and Neurological 

What is the capital of China?

• Shanghi

• Wuhan

• Beijing

• Gold Coast

Geography is the study of...

• The ocean, particularly its living creatures

• Maps and country names

• Living and non-living elements of the Earth

• Rocks and minerals

Look at the infographic (image) to answer this question.

The left hand side shows the population in order of highest to lowest in 2017.

The right side shows the predicted population for the year 2100.

Which country is 2nd on the list for 2017?

• Indonesia

• China

• India

Look at the infographic (image) to answer this question.

What is the estimated population of the world in 2020?