Year 12 powerpoint to introduce GGA2 Module. Focus on urbanisation. Key Terms included

3. Urbanisation is increasing most rapidly in Africa and Asia. 2025 – half of the population of these continents will live in urban areas and 80% of urban dwellers will live in LEDC’s Europe, Oceania and N. America, urbanisation levels peaked in the 1970’s and have fallen steadily since then. Percentage of the world’s population living in urban settlements, 2000. Describe the pattern shown above

4. Plot the information above onto a bar graph 68 66 65 Oceania 77 67 60 Europe 80 70 68 N. America 78 70 55 S. America 52 30 19 Asia 50 30 20 Africa Continent 2025 2000 1975 Year % of the Population living in urban areas

5. 0.05 0.05 0.05 Oceania 0.55 2.0 0.45 Europe 0.3 0.25 0.2 N. America 0.5 0.3 0.2 S. America 2.6 1.4 0.55 Asia 0.6 0.25 0.1 Africa Continent 2025 2000 1975 Year Population (billions) living in urban areas

8. Urban Growth. An increase in the number of urban dwellers. Classifications of urban dwellers depend on the census definition of urban areas, which vary from country to country. They usually include one or more of the following criteria; population size; population density; average distance between buildings within a settlement; legal and/or administrative boundaries. Urbanisation. An increase in the proportion of a country’s population that lives in towns and cities. The two main causes of urbanisation are natural population growth and migration into urban areas from rural areas. Urban sprawl . The physical spread of the urban area. It has been caused by suburbanisation and the desire for lower density housing. KEY TERMS