Population and cities
Grade 7: population growth, migration, cities and urbanisation, densely and sparsely populated areas.
Free to play. Teams answer on one screen; your phone is the remote. No student devices.
Questions
Roughly how many people live on Earth today?
- About 3 billion
- About 8 billion
- About 80 billion
- About 800 million
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About 8 billionWhat is a census?
- A map of a country's rivers
- A tax paid by every citizen
- A vote to choose a leader
- An official count of a country's people
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An official count of a country's peopleThe world's population has grown much faster in the last 200 years than before. (True or false?)
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TrueWhich change helped populations grow fast after 1800?
- Better medicine and food supply
- Fewer farms and less food
- More deadly diseases
- Smaller families everywhere
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Better medicine and food supplyWhat word describes leaving your own country to live in another one?
- Birth rate
- Emigration
- Population density
- Urbanisation
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EmigrationWhich is a 'pull factor' that attracts migrants to a place?
- Drought
- Famine
- Plenty of jobs
- War
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Plenty of jobsWhat word describes people moving from the countryside to cities? (Answer out loud)
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Rural-to-urban migrationWhat is someone called who flees their country to escape danger?
- A refugee
- A resident
- A tourist
- A tradesperson
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A refugeeWhat is urbanisation?
- A city's border becoming smaller
- Growth in the number of farms
- Growth in the share of people living in cities
- People moving to other countries
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Growth in the share of people living in citiesMore than half of the world's people now live in towns and cities. (True or false?)
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TrueWhich city is the capital of Japan and one of the largest cities in the world?
- Osaka
- Seoul
- Sydney
- Tokyo
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TokyoWhat name is given to a city with more than 10 million people? (Answer out loud)
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A megacityA country has 6,000 people living on 200 square km. What is its density?
- 12 people per square km
- 120 people per square km
- 30 people per square km
- 300 people per square km
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30 people per square kmWhich area is usually sparsely populated?
- Coastal city
- Desert
- Fertile plain
- River delta
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DesertAntarctica has a large permanent population because it is so big. (True or false?)
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FalseWhich continent has the most people living on it? (Answer out loud)
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Asia