Karteikarten
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Karten in diesem Stapel (8)
- 1settlementurbanisation
the growth of proportion of a country's population living in urban areas (towns/cities) - 2rural-urban migration movement of people from the countryside to the citiespush factors
- few jobs and low wages
- lack of services
- poor harvest - 3pull factors - more jobs and high wages - better servicesits normally young people who move to cities. there is better healthcare in cities, so people live longer
- 4impacts - overcrowding - increased traffic, pollution and wastecounter-urbanisation
opposite of urbanisation
movement of people from urban areas to rural areas - 5push factors - pollution and traffic congestion are higher cities - crime is more prominent in cities - houses cost more in citiespull factors
- better transport links and increased car ownership
- the growth of IT means more people can work from home
- more jobs are abvailable outside of cities - 6urban land use
- 7high order goods goods that are bought occasionally and are usually more expensive e.g. clothes, furniture and cars. also called comparison goodslow order goods
goods that are bought frequently and are usually quite cheap e.g. milk, bread and newspapers - 8the sphere of influence the area that people come from to visit a shop. shops that sell high order goods have a large sphere of influence; people will go a long way to get expensive itemsshops in rural areas sell mainly low order goods, but some specialist shops e.g. caravan shops can be found in these rural areas
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- GCSE Geography (exam prep) Karteikarten am settlement, erstellt von lucy johnson am 11/04/2017.
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