Settlement Patterns

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Most of the earliest settlements were located near which natural resource?

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Freshwater

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Why were trade routes important for settlements?

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Because resources were not distributed evenly.

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Which type of settlement is mostly likely to be found along a river? Options: Grid Settlement, Cluster Settlement, Linear Settlement

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Linear Settlement

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Which type of area would a person who wants to work in agriculture want to live? Options: an urban area, a suburban area, a rural area, the ocean

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a rural area

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What is the term for when several large cities have grown together and meet?

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megalopolis

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How is life in urban areas different than in rural areas?

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In urban areas there are more businesses and commercial buildings than in rural areas.

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Communities that are laid out according to a network of transportation routes are

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grid settlements

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Any place where a community is established is a

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settlement

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Communities that are grouped along the length of a resource are

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linear settlements

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The placement of people and objects on Earth and the space between them

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spatial pattern