Geography- settlements

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Before the last ice age - 120,000 years ago, people were

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hunters and gatherers

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What allowed people to settle in one place?

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worked out how to farm

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What is a settlement?

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A group of people living and working together, a group of buildings in which people live, an agreement to pass a sum of money, items or property from one person to another.

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A megalopolis is the same as a

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Megacity

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A hamlet is bigger than a

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Farm

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A metropolis is smaller than a: conurbation, hamlet, town, city

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conurbation

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A settlement hierarchy is

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an order of importance or size.

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A settlement with between 100-2500 people would be a

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village

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A settlement with 10,000 people would be a: Town, Village, Hamlet, City

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Town

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A settlement with more than 1 million people would be a

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Conurbation