Settlements

Question 1

What is a settlement?

Answer 1

A settlement is a place where people live.

Question 2

What is a site?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is a threshold population

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Range

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is a function?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

List three examples of a fuction

Answer 6

Residential, industria; and commercial

Question 7

What is an urban sprawl?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is a rural-urban fringe?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is settlement heirarchy?

Answer 9

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