Settlements Review

What is a settlement?

• the location of a community of penguins

• A place where people live

• the total population of an area

• the average number of people in a given area

Which of the following would have the highest number of people living in it?

• town

• village

• isolated dwelling

• conurbation

Which of the following would there be the most of?

• city

• village

• capital city

• conurbation

What is the Hierarchy of Settlements?

• a way of arranging countries by the number of people that live in them

• a way of creating a list of cities by population density

• a way of arranging settlements into a hierarchy based upon their population or some other criteria

• a way of creating a list of cities by population density

What type of product or good is more expensive and people are willing to travel long distances in order to purchase them?

• Comparative

• Convenience

• Conglomerate

• Random

Large towns will most likely have fewer services in them than smaller towns.

• True

• False

What term refers to the minimum number of potential customers a business must have in order to make a profit?

• Population Sphere

• Sphere Population

• Sphere of Influence

• Threshold Population

What type of settlement is this?

• Nucleated

• Linear

• Dispersed

• Rural

What type of settlement is this?

• Linear

• Dispersed

• Urban

• Nucleated

What type of settlement is this?

• Nucleated

• Dispersed

• Linear

• Rural