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Question
Correct the underlined word and complete the statement.
The New Economic Policy of 1991 is linked to the process of urbanisation.
Solution
The New Economic Policy of 1991 is linked to the process of globalisation.
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Match the correct pairs:
| Group A | Group B | ||
| (1) | Technological development and mechanisation | (A) | Urban areas |
| (2) | Permanently staying away from your original place | (B) | Lack of planning |
| (3) | 75% males are engaged in non-agricultural occupation | (C) | Migration |
| (4) | The problems of solid waste | (D) | Urbanisation |
Explain:
A planned city of your imagination
Make a list of the large cities in India and show them on a map of India.
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Cities offer the migrant better______ prospects for him or his children.
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Rural areas act as the ______ factor while urban areas are the ______ factor.
Match the columns
| A | B | ||
| 1 | Urbanisation | a | Bedroom communities |
| 2 | Rapid Industrial growth | b | Satellite city: Hitech city |
| 3 | Slums | c | Shift from rural areas to cities |
| 4 | Satellite cities | d | Plenty of job opportunities |
| 5 | Main city: Hyderabad | e | Heavily populated, poor living conditions |
Define urbanization
According to 2011 Census, what is the urban population of India?
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In India ______% people live in urban areas.
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______ is the process in which more and more people j start to live and work in towns and cities rather than villages.
An urban way of life is characterised by ______.
Explain the following concept with examples.
Urbanisation
Complete the concept map.
State whether the following statement is True or False with reasons.
Urbanization can have negative effects on our social relationships.
______ is the process in which there is an increase in the proportion of population living in towns and cities.
______ is determined by three number of factors.
______ to Urban migration is the migration between one urban center to the other like in search of higher salaries.
Urbanization is driven by five factors.
Explain the following concept with examples.
Urbanisation
Correct the underlined word, and complete and rewrite the statement:
Urbanisation is a process of imitation.
An ecocity is ______.
"Most slum residents in urban area are better off than the rural poor." Give any two advantages the slum residents have over rural poor.
Mention any two principles of sustainable development.
List any two ecological impacts of urbanisation.
Read the following paragraph and answer the following questions:
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Counter urbanization is a demographic and social process. Of late urbanization process in India is witnessing counter- urbanization in its life cycle. The counter-urbanization increases urbanism in physically rural areas. The growth in information technology, increase in car ownership over the last 40 years, more mobility, new business parks on the edge of cities, more people tend to move when they retire and so on are factors responsible for counter urbanization. |
- Mention any two causes associated with Counter Urbanization as given to the paragraph.
- Write two more causes, other than the ones mentioned here, which you think lead people to return to rural areas.
- What changes will be observed in rural areas as an effect of counter urbanization.
Emission of greenhouse gases is largely due to ______.
