Settlements Flashcards

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What is a settlement?

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A settlement is a place where people live.

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What is a site?

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A site is an actual place where a villiage or town grew up

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What is a threshold population

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The number of people needed to support a particular function/serivce

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Range

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Range is the maximum distzance people are prepared to travel in order to obtain a good or service

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What is a function?

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A function is the main purpose of a town or part of the town

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List three examples of a fuction

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Residential, industria; and commercial

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What is an urban sprawl?

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The growth of an urbam area into a rural-urbean fring

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What is a rural-urban fringe?

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A rural-urban fringe is where green, open spaces meet the built-upareas of towns and cities

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What is settlement heirarchy?

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Settlement hierarchy is a way if arranging/ranking settlements based upon their population size or other classfiication

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