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Which railwayRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →World transport 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 →

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Which railway

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Items
  1. Group
    Siberian
    Item
    Moscow
  2. Group
    Siberian
    Item
    Irkutsk
  3. Group
    Siberian
    Item
    Vladivostok
  4. Group
    Canadian
    Item
    Halifax
  5. Group
    Canadian
    Item
    Winnipeg
  6. Group
    Canadian
    Item
    Vancouver
  7. Group
    Orient
    Item
    Vienna
  8. Group
    Orient
    Item
    Istanbul
Groups
  1. Item
    Siberian
  2. Item
    Canadian
  3. Item
    Orient
Instructions
Drop each city onto the trans-continental railway it lies on.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 8, Transport and Communication._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    1869
    Question
    Year the Suez Canal was built
  2. Answer
    160
    Question
    Length of the Suez Canal in km
  3. Answer
    72
    Question
    Length of the Panama Canal in km
  4. Answer
    9332
    Question
    Length of the Trans-Siberian Railway in km
  5. Answer
    100
    Question
    Ships crossing Suez daily, about
  6. Answer
    60
    Question
    US share of world airways, per cent
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 8, Transport and Communication._

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World transport bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Busiest sea route, North Atlantic.
    Item
    Big Trunk
  2. Clue
    1869 canal, Mediterranean to Red Sea.
    Item
    Suez
  3. Clue
    72 km canal with six locks.
    Item
    Panama
  4. Clue
    World's most used inland waterway.
    Item
    Rhine
  5. Clue
    Andes pass on the Buenos Aires line.
    Item
    Uspallata
  6. Clue
    Highest railway density.
    Item
    Belgium
  7. Clue
    US oil pipeline from the Gulf.
    Item
    Big Inch
  8. Clue
    First public railway, 1825.
    Item
    Stockton
  9. Clue
    Pacific port where routes converge.
    Item
    Honolulu
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 8, Transport and Communication._

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