Settlements 2

Question 1

What are the three types of rural settlements?

Answer 1

Isolated farmsteads, hamlets, villages.

Question 2

What activities occur in isolated farmsteads?

Answer 2

Primary activities.

Question 3

What is an isolated farmstead?

Answer 3

A single, isolated settlement with a dispersed pattern.

Question 4

What is a hamlet?

Answer 4

A loose grouping of farmsteads.

Question 5

What pattern does a hamlet have?

Answer 5

Semi-dispersed.

Question 6

What is a village?

Answer 6

A dense grouping of farmsteads.

Question 7

What pattern does a village have?

Answer 7

Nucleated (clustered).

Question 8

What is a town?

Answer 8

A densely populated area with complex infrastructure.

Question 8

What are the five types of urban settlements?

Answer 8

Town, city, conurbation, metropolis, megalopolis.

Question 9

What is a city?

Answer 9

A large urban area with a big population.

Question 10

What is a conurbation?

Answer 10

Joined towns and cities forming a large urban area.

Question 11

What is a metropolis?

Answer 11

The main city in a region surrounded by smaller towns.

Question 12

What is a megalopolis?

Answer 12

A massive urban area formed by multiple conurbations.

Question 13

What does clustered mean?

Answer 13

Nucleated pattern.

Question 13

What does isolated mean?

Answer 13

Dispersed pattern.

Question 14

What is a dispersed pattern?

Answer 14

Buildings far apart, common in rural areas.

Question 15

What is a linear pattern?

Answer 15

Buildings arranged in lines along roads or rivers.

Question 16

What is a nucleated pattern?

Answer 16

Buildings closely grouped together.

Question 17

What type of function do rural settlements have?

Answer 17

Unifunctional.

Question 17

What is an isolated pattern?

Answer 17

A single building far from others.

Question 18

What activities dominate rural settlements?

Answer 18

Primary (farming, mining, forestry, fishing).

Question 19

What activities occur in urban settlements?

Answer 19

Secondary, tertiary, and quaternary.

Question 19

What type of function do urban settlements have?

Answer 19

Multifunctional.

Question 20

What determines where a settlement is located?

Answer 20

Physical and economic factors.

Question 21

What do physical factors focus on?

Answer 21

The natural environment.

Question 22

Why is fresh water important?

Answer 22

Essential for survival and farming.

Question 22

What is a wet-point site?

Answer 22

Settlement near a water source.

Question 23

Why are economic factors important?

Answer 23

They determine future development.

Question 23

What land is best for farming?

Answer 23

Fertile, flat or gently sloping land.