Year 9 Geography

Topic 2: Changing Places

6.4b Urbanisation and Megacities

Clickview: https://online.clickview.com.au/exchange/videos/10155362/urbanisation-and-
megacities

Instructions: Complete questions while the video plays.

Time Question

0:54 A megacity a city with a population of ____25mil_____________.

1:12 It is predicted that there will be 43 megacities by 2030. True or false? true

4:56 Outline two factors that you believe contribute to Mumbai’s growing population.

1 the gateway to india

Its location as the center of international trade

7:15 Copy the definition of TFR.

_______Total fertility
rate_____________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________

9:58 Copy the Rural Push factors.

 social - better housing and services, eg healthcare and education.
 economic - more jobs and higher wages.
 environmental - better living conditions with a safer environment
(less chance of natural disasters)

21:33 Copy the urban pull factors.

23:35 Why has Mumbai’s population been increasing.

The population is growing because of inward migration

23:41 What impact do you think the living coniditions for these people will have on their
potential to avoid Covid-19?
 Covid will be bad in mubai because of the amount of people living there in
such a small areasocial - better housing and services, eg healthcare
and education.
 economic - more jobs and higher wages.
 environmental - better living conditions with a safer environment
(less chance of natural disasters)
 Year 9 Geography
Topic 2: Changing Places