Settlement

Question 1

Urban settlement

Answer 1

a town/city with over 1,500 people

Question 2

Rural settlement

Answer 2

Small villages

Question 3

Dispersed settlement

Answer 3

Houses + farmland scattered through countryside

Question 4

Linear settlement

Answer 4

Houses along a road, rail line/river

Question 5

Nucleated settlement

Answer 5

houses are clustered together like a village

Question 6

absence of settlement

Answer 6

Quality of land
water supply/drainage
Transport routes
Emigration
Bogland

Question 7

Altitude

Answer 7

How high up something is

Question 8

Aspect

Answer 8

The direction something is facing

Question 9

Slope

Answer 9

Houses are usually built on a flat surface

Question 10

Drainage

Answer 10

Houses arent built too close to water sources because of flooding

Question 11

Urban functions

Answer 11

Services that a town provides to its community, eg school (education)

Question 12

Factors infuencing location of towns

Answer 12

Presence of flat/gently sloping land
Meeting of transport routes
Bridging points on rivers
Coastal location

Question 13

Historical settlement

Answer 13

Defensive- ringforts, castles, round towers
Burial sites- graveyards, standing stones + portal dolmens

Question 14

Land used in rural settlement

Answer 14

Pastoral farming- grazing animals
arable farming - brown feilds
Woodland - large areas of trees
Buildings - houses + sheds
Transport - roads
Recreation - sports grounds

Question 15

Primate city

Answer 15

City with at least x2 the pop of next biggest city, eg Ireland = Dublin
Seat of Gov
Centre of Irelands transport, commerce + transport

Question 16

Dutch polders

Answer 16

Netherlands is densely populated
Areas of land that are reclaimed from the sea are called polders