Settlements

Question 1

Site

Answer 1

Land/space a settlement is built in.

Question 2

What is a settlement’s site affected by?

Answer 2

Human and physical features

Question 3

Choice of site decided is decided by…

Answer 3

S halter
H eight
A spect (the way the slope faces)
W ater supply
L and eg. fertile, flood plain, slope etc.

Question 4

Settlement

Answer 4

Place where people live (big or small, permanent or temporary)

Question 5

Settlements are usually/sometimes built… (name 8)

Answer 5

Safe/hidden from wild animals/attackers
Near water and wood
Out of regular flood-plains
Near suitable hunting ground
River -trade, travel, drinking water,
High ground - protection
Flat ground - easy building
With water as natural defence

Question 6

Situation

Answer 6

Where a settlement is in relation to it’s surroundings

Question 7

What affects situation?

Answer 7

P laces
A ccesibility
R elief (shape of the land)
C ommunicate (Roman beacons on hill tops)

Question 8

Dispersed settlement

Answer 8

Individual buildings, spread out around an area, no obvious centre.
Usually farmhouses, with space between for farming.

Question 9

Nucleated settlement

Answer 9

Buildings are grouped close together, for trade, and often have a central market square.

Question 10

Linear settlement

Answer 10

Buildings are along a road, valley/coast to give them good access (along the roads) to trade with passing travellers.