Rural And Urban Settlement In Ireland Flashcards

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What is urban settlement

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

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What is rural settlement

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

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What three factors have influenced rural and urban settlement inIreland

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Physical landscape
historical factors
the importance of Dublin city

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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

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Altitude and relief
Fertile soil
drainage
Rivers

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What is Dublin and what does it mean

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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)

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