Geography Flashcards
What do you call the overall pattern of weather?
Climate
What is the day to day variation in temperature, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, cloud cover, humidity and air pressure?
Weather
What do you call the actual place where a village or town grew up or was built?
Site
What do you call a place where people live?
Settlement
What is a hierarchy
An order of importance
What is a settlement hierarchy?
Conurbation City Town Village Hamlet
What do you find in an isolated settlement?
Single/few buildings on their own. This will normally be found in mountainous areas and will normally be the farmhouse of a large farm
What do you find in a dispersed settlement?
The houses are spread out over a large area
What do you find in a nucleated settlement?
The houses are grouped together for protection.
What do you find in a linear settlement
The settlement forms in a line, normally in the gentler slopes of a valley
What is the shape of a settlement
The way the settlement looks and how big it is
What is the function of a settlement?
What the settlement does
What is the land use of a settlement?
What happens on the land in the settlement
