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Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.1 The urban explosion
5.1 The urban explosion
A write-in answer sheet for the questions and tasks in this topic
Activity: Urbanisation
This interactive activity lets you practise what you have learned about urbanisation and the appeal of cities.
World: urbanisation
Look at this interactive map to see the population in urban areas around the world.
World population
A short video explaining how the world's population is predicted to rise to 9 billion by 2050
World population
This video worksheet supports the video for this topic.
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.2 How cities are organised
5.2 How cities are organised
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Melbourne: CBD and inner suburbs
This layered interactive map lets you explore Melbourne's CBD in detail.
5.2 Exploring Chinese cities
This student worksheet will help you build your understanding of the key concepts from this unit. Complete this in class or as homework.
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.3 The advantages of cities
5.3 The advantages of cities
A write-in answer sheet for the questions and tasks in this topic
Why do people move to urban areas?
A short video about the push and pull factors that influence people to move to urban areas
Why do people move to urban areas?
This video worksheet supports the video for this topic.
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.4 The disadvantages of cities
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.5 The rise of the megacity
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.6 Urbanisation in Indonesia
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5A Rich task: Sydney – our biggest city
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.7 Where Australians live
5.7 Where Australians live
A write-in answer sheet for the questions and tasks in this topic
Australia: Population distribution
This interactive map shows the distribution of people in Australia.
Melbourne: Population change
See how the population in Melbourne's suburbs changed between 2006 and 2011.
5.7 Living in Australia
This student worksheet will help you build your understanding of the key concepts from this unit. Complete this in class or as homework.
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.8 Why Australians live where they do
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.9 Where Americans live
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.10 Why Americans live where they do
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5.11 Life in New York – a US megacity
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life
5B Rich task: The growth of Las Vegas
Chapter 5 Cities and urban life