Settlements Flashcards

(36 cards)

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Settlement

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Somewhere people live , it could be a village , a town or a city

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What dose a settlement need

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A water source
A food source
A way to get materials
Flat land

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Settlement hierarchy

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Ranking things in order of importance

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Urban

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A town or city

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Rural

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The countryside rather than a town

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City

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A large town

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Town

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A built-up area with a name and a local government, that is larger than a village and generally smaller than a city

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Village

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A group of houses larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town which is situated in a rural area

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Hamlet

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A small settlement generally one smaller than a village and strictly one without a church

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3 examples of city’s

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London
Tokyo
Moscow

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3 examples of towns

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Bath
Cambridge
Oxford

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3 examples of villages

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Kidlington
Horsforth
Cottingham

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3 examples of hamlets

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Claudius
Ineries
Polonius

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Urbanisation

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People moving from rural to urban areas

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Push factor

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Something that makes you want to leave a certain area

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Pull factor

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Something that makes you want to go to an area

17
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What is in the central business district

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Skyscraper 
Crowded
Tourists
Shops
Traffic
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What’s in the inner city

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House flats
Old factory’s
Less busy
Lots of rubbish

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What’s in the inner suburbs

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Cleaner
Detached / semidetached houses
More green space

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What’s in the outer suburbs

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Bigger detached houses
Gardens
Driveways
Train stations

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Linear

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Buildings are gerneraly going along the road

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Necleated

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Buildings are clustered together

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Dispersed

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The buildings are spreed out

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Settlement function

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The reason why the settlement was built in the first place

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Why do we need more houses
Homeless population increase jobs people want bigger houses
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Greenfield sites
An area of countryside or open space that has not yet been built on
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Brownfield site
An area of disused and derelict land in an urban area that is available for available for redevelopment
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2 disadvantage of greenfield sites
More traffic in the country side | Trees would have to be cut down
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2 advantage of greenfield sites
There is nothing to clear | More houses
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2 disadvantage of brownfield sites
Traffic jams will get worse | Clearing the land costs money
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2 advantage of brownfield sites
Easier to get planning permission | Makes good use of wasted ground
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Birth rate
The number of births per thousand per year
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Death rate
The number of deaths per thousand per year
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Slum
A dirty and overcrowded urban street or housing inhabited by very poor people
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List some problems with slums
``` Crime rate Air pollution House unstable Dirty Open sewers ```
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What are the types of pollution
Air and water