Geography Skills:

- Ask questions and identify issues.
- Use information to describe, explain, and answer questions about people, places, and the relationship between the two.
- Make links between cause and effect.

Work on your own. Refer to the materials and sources in this unit, as well as your own knowledge.

1. Define the following concepts:
1.1. Urbanisation
1.2. Push forces
1.3. Pull forces

2. Give five examples of pull and push forces.

3. How can political and economic forces cause migration? Give one example of a political force and one example of an economic force that causes migration in Africa.

4. Name three rapidly growing African cities.

5. Name the homelands created by the apartheid government in South Africa. How has the creation of these homelands impacted present urban settlement patterns?

6. Refer to SOURCE 3. Name Black or Indian townships created around Johannesburg and Cape Town during apartheid as a way of removing these populations from the cities.

7. Which South African provinces have the highest and the lowest informal settlement populations? Why do you think this is the case?

8. Refer to SOURCE 4. Describe five social problems related to the rapid growth of cities. Explain why rapid growth of cities causes these problems.

9. Give three educational problems experienced by learners in informal settlements.

10. If you were in the government, what solutions would you suggest to overcome the social issues in informal settlements?