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Junior Cycle Geography: Urbanisation and urban change

How often Urbanisation and urban change comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Urbanisation and urban change, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Urbanisation and urban change.

(a)What is urbanisation?
  1. People leaving towns for the countryside
  2. A rising share of people living in towns
  3. New roads being built in farm areas
(b)What is urban sprawl?
  1. People crowding into tower blocks
  2. Old buildings knocked in the centre
  3. Towns spreading out onto farmland
(c)Which is a common problem in large cities like Dublin?
  1. Traffic congestion
  2. Very cheap housing
  3. Too few jobs and services
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(a) A rising share of people living in towns

(b) Towns spreading out onto farmland

(c) Traffic congestion

Your turn: Common Level questions on Urbanisation and urban change.

Common Level

Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q8B, Q8C
2024Q8C
2023Q4B
2022Q7B

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Urbanisation and urban change questions

Urbanisation and urban change, 2 marks

Why do many people move from the countryside to cities?

  1. Cheaper housing in the city centre
  2. Quieter roads with less traffic
  3. More jobs, colleges and services
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More jobs, colleges and services

Cities offer more job choice, colleges, hospitals and entertainment. Fewer farm jobs and poorer services push people out of rural areas.

Urbanisation and urban change, 2 marks

Rebuilding run-down inner-city areas, e.g. Dublin's Docklands, is called?

  1. Counter-urbanisation
  2. Urban renewal
  3. Urban sprawl
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Urban renewal

In urban renewal old buildings are cleared or restored and the area is rebuilt, as when old warehouses in Dublin's Docklands became offices, apartments and venues.

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