Geography Monthly Test 1 Year 8

A settlement is...

• A place where only animals live

• A place where people live

• A forest

• A river

What is the name given to a settlement where the buildings are arranged around a central point e.g. a market?

• Dispersed

• Nucleated

• Linear

What is the name given to a settlement where the buildings are arranged in a line e.g. along a main road?

• Nucleated

• Dispersed

• Linear

Nucleated settlements

• develop from middle inwards

• have a center point

• always develop around the intersection of two major roads

What is the name given to a settlement where the buildings are very spread out?

• Dispersed

• Nucleated

• Linear

This settlement pattern involves a number of buildings or houses not that close to each other but are within the same locality.

• Dispersed

• Linear

• Nucleated

The physical arrangement observed by looking at where people live are:

• region

• landform

• geographic factors

• settlement patterns

Relating to, or being in a city is known as a:

• urban area

• rural area

Relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture is known as an:

• Urban area

• Rural area

If a location is urban, it is...

• outside towns and cities

• far away from main centres of population

• within towns and cities