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Worksheets2ND YEAR - RURAL AND URBAN SETTLEMENTS
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is a settlement?
A village where houses are dispersed across the area.
A group of people integrated in their environment.
The process by which people establish homes in a place.
It is located in areas of agriculture, mining and fishing.
The activities related to farming, fishing, mining and forestry are part of the (a) sector.
Big capitals that have influence inside a country are called national (a) .
What are megacities and where can we find most of them?
They are cities of 10 million inhabitants or more and most of them are in Asia.
They are huge cities as big as countries that can be found all around the world.
They are cities 10 million inhabitants and most of them are in Europe and America.
They are cities like Tokyo or Mexico, with more than 20 million inhabitants and are located in America and Asia.
Which activities are found in a rural settlement?
Mining, fishing, farming and industry.
Livestock, construction, fishing and farming.
Farming, agriculture, tourism and industry.
Livestock, farming, fishing and mining.
A concentrated settlement...
...has its houses grouped together in a dispersed way.
...can be nucleated or linear.
...can sometimes be interspersed in montainous areas.
...is dispersed across an area of land.
Global metropolises...
...influence the whole world (Tokyo, New York, London)
...influence a country (Madrid, Moscow, New Delhi)
...influence the region around (Pamplona, Burgos)
...influence part of a country (Valencia, Bilbao)
A slum or shanty town is...
...a suburb developed after the Industrial Revolution.
...built with waste material, very poor and without minimum services.
...unplanned urban development into nearby areas.
...a big urban belt with 50 million inhabitants or more.
What kind of layout does this city have?
Grid layout with streets crossing at right angles.
Circular, it ressembles a spider-web.
Irregular, like Roman and Greek cities.
Nucleated and irregular.
What kind of settlement can we see in this picture?
Linear with houses built along a road.
Interspersed: a main nucleus with dispersed houses around.
Dispersed across a farming area.
Nucleated, with houses around a central point.
Where are the outskirts in a city?
In the center
Around the city
In the poorest areas
Far from the urban areas
What defines a city?
Size, economic activities
and density
Environment, few inhabitants and transport
Hospitals, schools and farming
Business, high buildings and rural population
Some problems of cities...
Energy production, water distribution, overpopulation and traffic congestion.
Pollution, xenophobia and transport problems.
High prices of housing, poverty and discrimination against immigrants.
All of them are correct.
Two examples of secondary sector activities are construction and (a)
