Settlement Patterns

How do you call a place where people live?

• site

• settlement

• habitat

• settlement patterns

How do you call a location where a settlement is being built?

• site

• ecosystem

• nation

• land area

How do you call the shape and size of a settlement?

• settlement pattern

• settlement route

• settlement habitat

• settlement ecosystem

A scattering of houses over a large area

• nucleated

• linear

• dispersed

What area do dispersed settlements usually occur?

• rural

• urban

refers to the grouping of houses along a line

• dispersed

• nucleated

• linear

refers to the clustering of houses around a center

• dispersed

• linear

• nucleated