Rural And Urban Settlement In Ireland

Question 1

What is urban settlement

Answer 1

An urban area is any built-up settlement with a population of over 1500 people.

Question 2

What is rural settlement

Answer 2

Rural settlements is any area of settlements outside larger towns and cities such as small villages in the countryside

Question 3

What three factors have influenced rural and urban settlement inIreland

Answer 3

Physical landscape
historical factors
the importance of Dublin city

Question 4

What influenced Ireland first settlers who landed on the shore about 9000 years ago. they were hunter-gatherers who lived a nomadic lifestyle moving from place to place

Answer 4

Altitude and relief
Fertile soil
drainage
Rivers

Question 5

What is Dublin and what does it mean

Answer 5

Dublin is Ireland primate city
a primate city is a city with the population of more than twice the size of the next largest city in the same country (or containing over one-third of a Nation’s population)