Lagos, a fast growing city

A television report from Lagos in Nigeria on how the city's spiralling population has increased the numbers living in slums.

Formerly the capital of Nigeria, Lagos's uncontrolled population growth has made one of the world's largest cities one of the world's largest slums.

Changing the landscape

People are changing the landscape. People affect the development of a landscape. Why?

There are two reasons:

1 - areas and landscapes change because the population in the area grows.

2 - the areas and the landscapes change because the wealth grows.

Physical landscape	Man-made landscape
A landscape with only physical elements.	A landscape with physical and man-made elements.
Examples of physical elements: -Sea -Oceans -Rivers -Forest -Indigenous vegetation -Mountains and hills	Examples of man-made elements: -Buildings -Road -Canals -Factories -Power station -Bridge

 

                                Physical elements.

                                Man-made elements.

The United States - Location, Size and Regions

A brief educational video on the geography of the United States.