5.2 Settlement Patterns And Survery methods Flashcards
Rural area
Area located outside of towns and cities
Rural settlement
Small groups of people living outside of an urban area
Silo
Stores feed for the livestock on the farm
Clustered settlement and how it was historically formed
A tightly bunched farm settlement
Historically formed by the fear of war
Farmstead
Center of farm operations
Dispersed settlement
Families live relatively distant from one another
Linear settlement pattern
A settlement pattern that forms lines and are formed alongside rivers
Cadastral survey
Documentation of property ownership, and use of boundaries
3 main types
Metes and bounds
Formed by the natural landscape of a place
Township and range
Usually 6 mile squares that form townships
Long lot surgery system
A unit block that is long. Almost 10 times longer than it’s width
What percentage is agriculture in earth
33%
1/3
Communal
The entire village not just the family
