| A | B |
|---|
| What is a settlement? | A settlement is a place where people live. A settlement can be as small as an individual house or as large as a city. |
| What is an urban area? | A built up area that is part of a town or city, with a high population relative to the surrounding areas. |
| What is a rural area? | The countryside with small villages and a low population relative to the urban areas. |
| What is the function of a settlement? | The function of a settlement is what the people who lived and worked in the settlement do - what the settlement is mainly used for. |
| Does the function of a settlement always stay the same? | Settlements often have more than one function and the function of most settlements change through time. |
| Give examples of different settlement functions. | Tourism, industries, government, residential, market town, port. |
| What is the settlement hierarchy? | An arrangement of the settlements in order of their size and importance. |
| What is the usual settlement hierarchy? | City, Town, Village, Hamlet. |
| What services is a large city likely to have? | Shops, schools, hospitals, libraries, post offices and churches, theatres, restuarants, public houses, banks, railway station, airport. |
| What services is a small town likely to have? | Shops, a small school, doctor, post office and church, railway station, restaurants, public house. |
| What services is a village likely to have? | Small shops, small primary school, post office, public house. |
| What services is a hamlet likely to have? | Often has no services. |
| What is a suburb? | A settlement on the edge of a city. |
| What do you call the place were a settlement is built? | Its site. |
| What are the natural advantages that early settlers would have looked for in a site? | Close to a river for drinking water and for transport, being on a hill top which is easy to defend, close to woods for building and for fires for warmth and cooking and for shelter, close to rocks for building and step cliffs for shelter, good farmland, flood prevention. |
| What are the different shapes a settlement may have? | Nucleated, dispersed, linear. |
| What are nucleated settlements and where do you find them? | They are where houses are grouped together. Usually in lowlands around a road or a river crossing. |
| What are dispersed settlements and where do you find them? | They are where buildings are spread further apart so people have more land for crops and animals. They are mostly found in uplands. |
| What are linear settlements and where do you find them? | They are long and thin. They are found along a road or a river or in a narrow valley. |
| What are convenience goods? | Things we buy often such as bread and newspapers. |
| What are comparison goods? | Things we buy less often such as clothes and furniture. We like to shop around and compare before we buy. |
| What part of the city is usually in the centre? | The oldest part and the central business district where most shops and businesses are. |
| What do you call the part of the city around the central business district? | The inner city. |
| What do you call the part of the city around (further out from) the inner city? | The inner suburbs. |
| What do you call the part of the city around (further out from) the inner suburbs? | The outer suburbs. |
| What is it called when you travel out from the centre of a city in a line. | Transecting the city. |
