Rural-Urban Links overview quiz - WJEC GCSE Geography quiz

A sharp boundary between town and country

The gradual change from city centre to remote countryside, with no sharp line

Only the centre of a large city

The movement of rivers through a city

People moving from rural areas into cities

Cities spreading outward into new suburbs

The decline of a city's population through disease

People moving out of cities to rural areas for a better quality of life

A village where most residents travel to a city to work, so it is quiet by day

A city centre full of offices

A squatter settlement on the edge of a megacity

A retail park outside a town

More money spent in local shops

Rising house prices that push out local young people

Improved broadband

More tourists visiting

Shoppers moved to out-of-town retail and online shopping

Town centres added free parking

Online shopping was banned

The population of every town fell sharply

Building new towns in the countryside

The redevelopment of run-down urban areas for new uses and a better environment

Moving factories to other countries

Knocking down all old buildings in a city

A new motorway ring road only

A coal mine reopening

A barrage creating a freshwater lake and waterfront, with the Wales Millennium Centre

An out-of-town retail park

The increasing proportion of people living in towns and cities

The movement of people from cities to villages

The decline of city populations

The spread of farmland

Counter-urbanisation and suburbanisation

Deindustrialisation and emigration

Rural-to-urban migration and natural increase

Tourism and retirement migration

Any capital city

A city with over one million people

A city in a high-income country only

A city with a population of over ten million people

Too few young people

Squatter settlements without secure housing or services

Falling demand for housing

An ageing population with no migration

More traffic congestion

Jobs, services and economic growth

More air pollution

More crime

Banning all migration to the city

Self-help schemes and site-and-service projects

Closing the city's schools

Removing all public transport

As part of the fieldwork enquiry only

By an oral exam

By data response in the Unit 1 written exam, using maps, graphs and photographs

By coursework marked by the school