Question 2
- Define the following terms associated with migration:
- Outline four factors that promote the growth of urban centres.
- Explain four problems associated with rapid urban growth.
Pull factors;
Push factors.
Observation
The question was popular among the candidates and their performance were good in (b) and (c). However, most of them could not answer the (a) part satisfactorily. The expected answers were:
Pull factors are the attractive things in the migrant destination that stimulate the urge to leave his source region such as job opportunities, education, social amenities etc.
Push factors are the many negative things in the migrant source region that make such areas unattractive such as natural disasters, insecurity, famine etc.