geog settlements

geog settlements

Multiple Choice

What does the term aspect mean?

• Direction in which a development faces

• The place where a settlement is built.

• The location of a settlement in relation to its surroundings.

Multiple Choice

What does the term site mean?

• Direction in which a development faces

• The location of a settlement in relation to its surroundings.

• The place where a settlement is built.

Multiple Choice

What does the term situation mean?

• The place where a settlement is built.

• Direction in which a development faces

• The location of a settlement in relation to its surroundings.

Multiple Choice

What type of settlement can you see

• Nucleated

• Lineated

• Dispersed

Multiple Choice

What type of settlement can you see

• Nucleated

• lineated

• Dispersed

Multiple Choice

What type of settlement can you see

• Nucleated

• Lineated

• Dispersed

Multiple Choice

What type of settlement can you see

• Nucleated

• Lineated

• Dispersed

Multiple Choice

What type of settlement can you see

• Nucleated

• Lineated

• Dispersed

settlements and services

Settlement hierarchies

• If we group and classify a number of settlements according to their size and shape, the result is settlement hierarchy.

• As you move up the hierarchy, the size of the settlement and the distance between similar sized settlements increases

• The number of services that a settlement provides increases with settlement size.

Settlement hierarchies

• Small settlements will only provide low-order services such as a post offices, doctors and newsagents. 

• Large towns, cities and conurbations will provide low and high-order services such as leisure centres, chain stores and hospitals.

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Settlement hierarchies

• Larger settlements and conurbations have a much larger sphere of influence than smaller ones. This means they attract people from a wider area because of the facilities they offer. 

• Cities such as London have a global sphere of influence, whereas a small hamlet or village may only have a sphere of influence of a couple of kilometres.

Settlement hierarchies

• Services such as department stores selling high order goods have a higher threshold than those selling low order goods such as newsagents.

• This means they need a higher number of people to support them and make them profitable, therefore they will only be found in larger settlements. It also means that there are fewer big department stores than small newsagents.

Multiple Choice

What happens to the size and distance between settlements as you move u the hierarchy

• Goes up

• Goes down

• Nothing

• I don't know

Multiple Choice

As the size of a settlement increases what happens to the size of the services provided?

• Goes down

• Goes up

• Nothing

• I don't know

Open Ended

Give two examples of low order services

Open Ended

Give two examples of high order services

Open Ended

Why do larger settlements attract more visitors?

Open Ended

Explain in as much detail as possible.

Why do department stores only appear in larger settlements and, what do they need to make they successful.