Settlement

Question 1

Factors of settlement

Answer 1

Water
Food
Defence
Communication

Question 2

Linear settlement

Answer 2

Line along a routeway

Question 3

Nucleated settlement

Answer 3

Grouped together, resulting in villages and towns

Question 4

Dispersed settlement

Answer 4

Scattered, usually farmhouses.

Question 5

Primate city

Answer 5

Is a city that is twice as big as the second biggest city in the same country. Example, Dublin is twice as big as cork.

Question 6

What are the effects in settlement

Answer 6

Altitude
Drainage
Bridging point
Land quality

Question 7

Poulder

Answer 7

Areas of land reclaimed from the sea

Question 8

What is settlement on a poulder called

Answer 8

Planned radial pattern

Question 9

Decentralisation

Answer 9

Moving some economic activities from Dublin to other parts of the country in other to promote economic activity worldwide