Geography Skills

Question 1

Settlement types: Nucleated

Answer 1

• A settlement that surrounds a point, e.g. a service or cross roads.
• Services
• relief e.g. land height and location (rivers)

Question 2

Settlement types: Linear Settlement

Answer 2

• Settlements that grow along a road or along the coast.
• services
• relief

Question 3

Settlement types: Ribbon settlement

Answer 3

• Occurs when housing grows from a town following a main road.

Question 4

Settlement types: Dispersed Settlement

Answer 4

• No obvious centre and spead often over fertile farmland.
• Services (lack of)
• Area Characteristics (Mining and farming)
• Primary industry
• relief (Mountainous)

Question 5

PDA?

Answer 5

pattern, data, anomaly

Question 6

GIS?

Answer 6

Geographic information systems

Question 7

Describe how ICT can used to present data that has been collected in the field

Answer 7

GIS: Using layers combing information in layers on a map to display information.
Excel: create graph displaying information.