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Year 8 Geography · Urbanisation in Australia and the world

Name: ______________________

Date: ____________

1. What is urbanisation?
- ☐ (a) Moving to farms
- ☐ (b) The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities
- ☐ (c) Building new roads only
- ☐ (d) The growth of forests
2. Where do most Australians live?
- ☐ (a) In the arid centre
- ☐ (b) On farms
- ☐ (c) In coastal cities, especially in the south-east
- ☐ (d) In the tropical north
3. Which is a pull factor?
- ☐ (a) Better job opportunities
- ☐ (b) Drought
- ☐ (c) Conflict
- ☐ (d) Lack of schools
4. A megacity has a population of more than…
- ☐ (a) 100,000
- ☐ (b) 1 million
- ☐ (c) 5 million
- ☐ (d) 10 million
5. What is a 'sea change'?
- ☐ (a) A change in tides
- ☐ (b) Moving from a city to a coastal town for lifestyle
- ☐ (c) A new ocean forming
- ☐ (d) A type of boat
6. A town has 10,000 people, of whom 2,500 moved there in the last five years. What percentage is that?
7. People moving within the same country is called ____ migration.
8. Something that encourages people to leave a place is a ____ factor.

Answer sheet

1. The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities — Urbanisation is the rising share of people in urban areas.
2. In coastal cities, especially in the south-east — Most Australians live in coastal cities.
3. Better job opportunities — Jobs attract people to a place.
4. 10 million — Megacities have more than 10 million people.
5. Moving from a city to a coastal town for lifestyle — Sea change describes moving to a coastal town.
6. 25 — 2,500 ÷ 10,000 = 0.25 = 25%.
7. internal — Internal migration happens within a country.
8. push — Push factors drive people away.