Humanities Test 25/5/26

Pattern

Overall statement

Quantify

Statistics/data (What information from the graph supports the pattern you have identified?)

Exception

Something abnormal

Decentralisation

People and businesses move away from overcrowded city centers toward the suburbs

Migration

The movement of people to a new country or area.

Urbanisation

The process of social and economical change that takes place as increasing numbers of people move from rural areas to urban areas.

Megacity

A city with a population of over 10,000,000 people

Kampongs

Slums in Jakarta

Jakarta sinking

because many homes – particularly those in the kampongs – do not have a steady water supply; and so to access fresh water, residents dig wells and take water from the aquifer that lies beneath the city. So much water has been taken out that the city is sinking – in some places, 10–20 centimetres per year.