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settlement patterns and development

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Worksheet time: 10mins

Name

Class

Date

Which statement BEST describes changing population patterns between 1860 and 1890?

Many young Americans left big cities and moved to farms.

Many African Americans moved from northern cities to the rural South.

Most new immigrants to the United States settled in cities.

Most new immigrants to the United States settled in the West and bought farms.

If a location is rural, it is...

outside towns and cities

far away from main centres of population

within towns and cities

Extended urban area consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities

Filtering

Gentrification

Annexation

Conurbation

New Urbanism

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.

Concentric Zone Model

Gravity Model

Peripheral Model

Multiple Nuclei Model

Sector Model

A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement

Dispersed rural settlement

Clustered rural settlement

Economic base

Squatter Settlement

Urbanized Area

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

Dispersed

Nucleated

Isolated

Linear

Why were trade routes important for settlements?

Because people liked to travel

Because resources were not distributed evenly

Because people didn't want to trade

Because people wanted to settle by water

Most of the earliest settlements were located near which natural resource?

Coal

Iron ore

Cattle

Freshwater

What are the challenges of urban settlements?

Reduced pollution

Housing abundance

Social equality

Managing congestion

10.

What is a megacity?

Large urban region

Global urban giant

Small urban cluster

Residential area on the outskirts of major cities

11.

What is the function of residential areas in urban settlements?

Providing housing for marine life

Providing housing for urban populations

Providing housing for rural populations

Providing housing for animals

12.

What factors influence urban settlement patterns?

Religious beliefs

Geographical features

Political ideologies

Educational institutions

13.

What is a characteristic of urban settlements?

Homogeneous architecture

Low population density

Diverse architecture

Limited infrastructure

14.

What is settlement hierarchy?

A way of organizing and categorizing different types of human settlements

A way of organizing and categorizing different types of animal habitats

A way of organizing and categorizing different types of natural landmarks

A way of organizing and categorizing different types of weather patterns

15.

What is the role of settlement hierarchy in guiding decisions about investment in infrastructure, services, and economic development?

By only focusing on cities

By understanding the different roles and functions of settlements within a region

By ignoring the needs of villages

It cannot guide any decisions

16.

Which of the following is an example of a village?

Charleston, South Carolina

Mumbai

Bibury in the Cotswolds, England

Sao Paulo

17.

How can settlement hierarchy be thought of?

As a circle

As a line

As a square

As a pyramid

18.

What is the next level in the settlement hierarchy after cities?

Boroughs

Megalopolises

Towns

Villages

19.

What are the characteristics of villages?

Smaller than cities and usually have a more limited range of services and amenities

Centers for farming and other primary economic activities

Large, densely populated areas with a wide range of economic, social, and cultural activities

Small, rural communities with a relatively small population

20.

How can settlement hierarchy guide decisions about investment in infrastructure, services, and economic development?