KS3 Geography — The Growth of Cities — Free Worksheet

🏙️ Find out how and why cities grow with this free KS3 Geography worksheet — no preparation required, just download and use. Urbanisation is the process by which a growing share of the world's population comes to live in towns and cities rather than the countryside, and this taster resource introduces the settlement hierarchy and the basics for students aged 11–14.

📦 What's included:

3 questions, 13 marks:

Multiple choice — testing knowledge of the settlement hierarchy

Fill-in-the-blank — a passage covering key vocabulary

Short answer — comparing a city and a village

Full answer key included.

🎬 Watch the free video lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiS36rhCO3o

👩‍🏫 Google Classroom ready — copy the link straight into your assignment. Print as many copies as your class needs.

🔓 This is a taster only. The full 100-mark worksheet goes deeper into rural-to-urban migration and natural increase, the 2008 urbanisation milestone, and how the location of the world's biggest megacities has shifted from high-income to low- and middle-income countries — available on its own, or as part of the Complete Lesson Pack with extension activities. Save £1 buying the pack (£3 + £3 = £6 separately, £5 together).

Price: Free