3.1 Changes in rural settlements

Question 1

Rural

Answer 1

Relating to the countryside

Question 2

Rural landscape

Answer 2

Mental or visual picture of the countryside

Question 3

Rural population

Answer 3

People living in the countryside in farms, isolated houses, hamlets and villages.

Question 4

Gentrification

Answer 4

Migration of people from a high socio-economic class into poorer ares. Allowing a spiral of development to arise.

Question 5

Green belt

Answer 5

Ara of open land retained around a city or town over which there are wide-ranging planning restrictions upon development

Question 6

Key village

Answer 6

Village designated to be developed in terms of goods and services available to its population and the one of surrounding areas.

Question 7

Rural depopulation

Answer 7

Decrease in population of rural areas.

Question 8

Urabanisation of poverty

Answer 8

Increasing concentration of poorer areas.

Question 9

Urban hierarchy

Answer 9

Grouping together urban areas into distinctive levels of functional importance.

Question 10

Town

Answer 10

Centre of population and business. Next step after a village.

Question 11

Village

Answer 11

Group of houses and other buildings (services). Larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town.

Question 12

Metropolitan village

Answer 12

Village that has been transformed into a commuter settlement due to its proximity to a large urban area.

Question 13

Hamlet

Answer 13

Very small rural settlement .

Question 14

LEDC

Answer 14

Less Economically Developed Country

Question 15

MEDC

Answer 15

More Economically Developed Country.