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Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Human development bingoRead the answer and worked solution →City workers move to cleaner suburbs and commute daily. What is this trend called?Read the answer and worked solution →A petrol pump counts as a lower order function in the USA but as what in India?Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian census needs what share of male workers in non-farm jobs for a place to be urban?Read the answer and worked solution →Houses built very close together along a river valley form which settlement type?Read the answer and worked solution →In the loess areas of China, what kind of dwellings were important?Read the answer and worked solution →Villagisation in Ethiopia and canal colonies of the Indira Gandhi canal are examples of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Houses strung along a road, railway or canal form which village pattern?Read the answer and worked solution →A village grows where several roads converge, with houses along each road. Which pattern?Read the answer and worked solution →A settlement stretching on both banks of a river with a bridge is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Which city was the first to reach a population of one million, around AD 1810?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of the world's population lives in urban settlements today?Read the answer and worked solution →The minimum population for an urban place is 5,000 in India. What is it in Japan?Read the answer and worked solution →In Denmark, Sweden and Finland, a place is urban at what population?Read the answer and worked solution →Italy calls a settlement urban if over 50 per cent work outside farming. India sets this at?Read the answer and worked solution →In Brazil and Bolivia what makes any centre urban regardless of size?Read the answer and worked solution →New Delhi, Canberra, Beijing and Washington DC are classed as which kind of town?Read the answer and worked solution →Jerusalem, Mecca, Jagannath Puri and Varanasi are classed as which kind of town?Read the answer and worked solution →Broken Hill and Dhanbad are grouped under which town function?Read the answer and worked solution →The Ethiopian capital's name means New Flower. Which city is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which American landscape architect planned Canberra in 1912?Read the answer and worked solution →Who coined the term conurbation in 1915 for merged towns like Greater London?Read the answer and worked solution →How many cities had at least one million people in 2016?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the capitalsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the village patternsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the urban cut-offsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the pilgrim townsRead the answer and worked solution →Compact or dispersedRead the answer and worked solution →Who coined whatRead the answer and worked solution →

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Questions
  1. Answer
    1990
    Question
    Year the HDI was created
  2. Answer
    3
    Question
    Key areas of human development
  3. Answer
    4
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    Pillars of human development
  4. Answer
    6
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    Basic needs named by the ILO
  5. Answer
    40
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    Age used in the human poverty index survival measure
  6. Answer
    59
    Question
    Very high HDI countries in the 2018 report
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_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 4, Human Development._

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Human development bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Created the HDI in 1990.
    Item
    Haq
  2. Clue
    Development as freedom, capability approach.
    Item
    Sen
  3. Clue
    Publishes the Human Development Report.
    Item
    UNDP
  4. Clue
    Equal access to opportunities.
    Item
    Equity
  5. Clue
    Measures the shortfall in development.
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    HPI
  6. Clue
    Proposed the basic needs approach.
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    ILO
  7. Clue
    Bhutan's measure of progress.
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    GNH
  8. Clue
    Beats Punjab and Gujarat on human development.
    Item
    Kerala
  9. Clue
    Score above which HDI is very high.
    Item
    0.800
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 4, Human Development._

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City workers move to cleaner suburbs and commute daily. What is this trend called?

  1. Suburbanisation
  2. Urbanisation
  3. Villagisation
  4. Conurbation
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Correct answer: A. Suburbanisation

1. People leave congested cities for cleaner outskirts. 2. Suburbs grow around major cities. 3. Thousands commute to the city each day. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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