KS2 Settlements | How Towns and Cities are Linked Together

Geography Quiz - Settlements 2 (Questions)

Settlements - cities, towns, villages and hamlets - is one of the topics covered in KS2 geography. This is the second of two quizzes on the subject and it looks specifically at how settlements have developed and how they link together.

Settlements are colonies where people live such as hamlets and cities. Settlements have developed over time and most include constructed facilities such as roads which link them together with other settlements, enclosures for livestock, fields systems for growing crops, ditches for drainage, ponds for waterfowl and fish, parks for leisure, woods and churches. People live together for convenience and to be social.

Find out more about how towns, villages and cities link together and how they have developed in this quiz. Can you get all ten questions right?

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Which is the largest type of settlement?

[ ]	Hamlet
[ ]	City
[ ]	Town
[ ]	Village

What might cause a village to become a city?

[ ]	Building of a hospital
[ ]	Population increase
[ ]	Link to other villages by road
[ ]	Building of a cathedral

What would cause the population of a settlement to increase?

[ ]	New factories creating lots of jobs for people
[ ]	Building of a school
[ ]	Link to other villages by railway
[ ]	The building of a town hall

What would be needed in a seaside town if lots of tourists started to visit?

[ ]	New shops
[ ]	New hotels
[ ]	New cafes
[ ]	All of these

In which settlement would you be more likely to find a cathedral?

[ ]	Hamlet
[ ]	City
[ ]	Farm
[ ]	Village

Which settlement is most unlikely to have a church?

[ ]	Hamlet
[ ]	Village
[ ]	City
[ ]	Town

Which of these connections would not link two cities?

[ ]	Motorway
[ ]	Road
[ ]	Footpath
[ ]	Railway

What is a bridleway?

[ ]	A path for horses and non-motorised vehicles
[ ]	A man-made channel for boats
[ ]	A track for electric trams
[ ]	A link road between two motorways

Which of these is NOT a method of crossing a river?

[ ]	Bridge
[ ]	Canal
[ ]	Ferry
[ ]	Ford

10.

What often developed at the mouth of rivers?

[ ]	Seaside towns
[ ]	Public houses
[ ]	Ports
[ ]	Hamlets

Geography Quiz - Settlements 2 (Answers)

Which is the largest type of settlement?

[ ]	Hamlet
[x]	City
[ ]	Town
[ ]	Village

London is the largest city in the UK

What might cause a village to become a city?

[ ]	Building of a hospital
[x]	Population increase
[ ]	Link to other villages by road
[ ]	Building of a cathedral

As the population grows, more houses and facilities such as hospitals will be built. There are some cities that do not have cathedrals, for example, Wolverhampton

What would cause the population of a settlement to increase?

[x]	New factories creating lots of jobs for people
[ ]	Building of a school
[ ]	Link to other villages by railway
[ ]	The building of a town hall

People like to live quite near to where they work so if a factory was built in a town the people who work there might move to the town as well

What would be needed in a seaside town if lots of tourists started to visit?

[ ]	New shops
[ ]	New hotels
[ ]	New cafes
[x]	All of these

Tourists need places to eat, shop and sleep

In which settlement would you be more likely to find a cathedral?

[ ]	Hamlet
[x]	City
[ ]	Farm
[ ]	Village

The vast majority of cathedrals are in cities

Which settlement is most unlikely to have a church?

[x]	Hamlet
[ ]	Village
[ ]	City
[ ]	Town

As a hamlet may just be two or three houses, it is less likely to have a church

Which of these connections would not link two cities?

[ ]	Motorway
[ ]	Road
[x]	Footpath
[ ]	Railway

Footpaths link shorter distances, like villages or parts of a town

What is a bridleway?

[x]	A path for horses and non-motorised vehicles
[ ]	A man-made channel for boats
[ ]	A track for electric trams
[ ]	A link road between two motorways

Bicycles are allowed on bridleways but they were originally intended for horses

Which of these is NOT a method of crossing a river?

[ ]	Bridge
[x]	Canal
[ ]	Ferry
[ ]	Ford

A canal is a man-made waterway on which boats travel up and down. Stepping stones, like those in the picture, are also a way to cross a small river

10.

What often developed at the mouth of rivers?

[ ]	Seaside towns
[ ]	Public houses
[x]	Ports
[ ]	Hamlets

Ports were important places for sending goods abroad, and rivers provided transport of the goods to the port