Developing countries are experiencing rapid urbanization. What are the pull and push factors that are driving this movement? What are the challenges of the receiving cities?

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Answer: Varies but answers should speak to dislocation from rural environment, perceived job opportunities, components of chain migration. Jobs, housing, congestion, noise and air pollution, challenges with sanitation, crime, informal economies all present in a rapidly urbanized area.

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Evidence supporting the hypothesis of continental drift

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Tensional forces combined with brittle deformation normally cause:

a) strike-slip faults b) reverse faults c) thrust faults d) normal faults e) recumbent faults

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