Settlement

Question 1

What is settlement?

Answer 1

A settlement is defined as a place in which people live and where they carry out a variety of activities such as residence, trade, manufacturing and agriculture.

Question 2

What are the different types of settlement patterns?

Answer 2

1. Linear
2. Nuclear/Compact
3. Dispersed/Scattered
4. Isolated

Question 3

What are the characteristics of linear settlements?

Answer 3

A settlement that has grown in a line (doesn’t have to be straight)
It will normally follow a road, river, coast or a valley floor

Question 4

What are the characteristics of nuclear/compact settlements?

Answer 4

All the houses in a settlement are built very close to each other, often around the central village green or church

Question 5

What are the characteristics of dispersed/scattered settlements?

Answer 5

1. When individual buildings are separated by several hundred meters
2. they are individual isolated buildings and don’t forma a single settlement
3. Typically occur in areas of adverse physical conditions where natural resources are insufficient to support more than a few people

Question 6

What are the characteristics of isolated settlements?

Answer 6

A settlement type when one single house is in the middle of a forest/desert (isolated area).