Settlement

It means places or location where people set up homes to live.

• Settlements

• Settlement Hierarchy

• Settlement Patterns

If a location is rural, it is...

• outside towns and cities

• far away from main centres of population

• within towns and cities

• in the mountains

Which of these is not a settlement function?

• Market town

• Port

• Linear

• Resort

Which of these is not a settlement pattern?

• Nucleated

• Linear

• Dispersed

• Industrial

This settlement pattern involves a number of buildings or houses not that close to each other but are within the same locality.

• Dispersed

• Linear

• Nucleated

This is a settlement pattern that is usually developed along the road, railways, established routes or waterways.

• Disperser

• Linear

• Nucleated

This type of settlement pattern has a center point and develop from the middle outwards.

• Dispersed

• Linear

• Nucleated

If we were to rank settlements in size order, we would draw a ________________

• hierarchy

• pyramid

• map

Which of these is the smallest settlement?

• town

• village

• hamlet

What comes in between a hamlet and a small town on the settlement hierarchy?

• Capital city

• A city

• A village