Jacaranda Essentials Geography 2

CHAPTER 5 SETTLEMENTS: FROM VILLAGE TO MEGACITY

5.3 URBAN GROWTH IN MELBOURNE

ACTIVITIES

Understand 1. List the physical factors that have affected the growth and shape of Melbourne.

2. Study the map. Describe Melbourne’s development, using distances and directions from the CBD in the following time frames. Refer to the scale to work out distances. (a) 1835–1880

(b) 1880–1919

(d) After 1960

3. Draw a flow chart (including dates) to show the progressive development of Melbourne.

4. For each of the time frames listed in the key to the map at right, list one Melbourne suburb that was established during the period.

Design and create 5. (a) Visit the website for this book and click on the Map of Victoria weblink for this …….chapter (see ‘Weblinks’, page vii). Use the map and the satellite image at right to …….mark the following features on it. Don’t forget BOLTSS.  Port Phillip Bay (large, dark feature in the centre of the satellite image)

 Shallow water, and islands at the southern edge of the bay near the entrance of Port Phillip Bay

 Mornington Peninsula — the land that separates Port Phillip Bay from Western Port Bay(south-eastern corner of satellite image)

 The distribution of farmland surrounding Melbourne, indicated by pink and light green areas on the image

 Other key features such as dams and streams

 Any other features you can recognise

(b) On a tracing paper overlay, draw and label the following features:  the urban area of Melbourne shown on the image as a light purple colour at the head of Port Phillip Bay.

 open spaces (e.g. parkland) and transport routes. Use appropriate symbols and colours, and represent these in the legend for the overlay.

 the Yarra River Valley, which can be seen as a thin, dark, linear feature on the image. Trace the river from central Melbourne (where the river flows into Port Phillip Bay) to the eastern side of the satellite image.

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