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Geography: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Settlement 1 (Questions)

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In Geography a 'settlement' means a community of people - it can be permanent or temporary, large or small.

Settle down and try the following quiz to see how much you know about the subject.

What means the location of a settlement in relation to surrounding features?

[ ]	Function
[ ]	Relief
[ ]	Site
[ ]	Situation

To help understand settlements we use a land use what?

[ ]	Estimate
[ ]	Model
[ ]	Project
[ ]	Scale

In what settlement are buildings closely grouped?

[ ]	Concentrated
[ ]	Condensed
[ ]	Focused
[ ]	Nucleated

Burgess made a 1924 land use model for which city?

[ ]	Chicago
[ ]	Edinburgh
[ ]	London
[ ]	New York

The function of a settlement can be what?

[ ]	Its age
[ ]	Its shape
[ ]	The land it is built on
[ ]	The uses people have for it

A housing area on the edge of a town is called what?

[ ]	Sub-standard
[ ]	Subterfuge
[ ]	Subterranean
[ ]	Suburb

What type of houses are joined together in a line?

[ ]	Detached
[ ]	Prefabricated
[ ]	Semi-detached
[ ]	Terraced

Settlements that follow a transport route are called what?

[ ]	Elongated
[ ]	Lateral
[ ]	Linear
[ ]	Serpentine

Which of these settlements is the smallest?

[ ]	Conurbation
[ ]	Hamlet
[ ]	Town
[ ]	Village

10.

The edge of an urban area is the rural-urban what?

[ ]	Fence
[ ]	Fringe
[ ]	Parting
[ ]	Partition

Geography: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Settlement 1 (Answers)

What means the location of a settlement in relation to surrounding features?

[ ]	Function
[ ]	Relief
[ ]	Site
[x]	Situation

To help understand settlements we use a land use what?

[ ]	Estimate
[x]	Model
[ ]	Project
[ ]	Scale

Models simplify a real situation

In what settlement are buildings closely grouped?

[ ]	Concentrated
[ ]	Condensed
[ ]	Focused
[x]	Nucleated

Burgess made a 1924 land use model for which city?

[x]	Chicago
[ ]	Edinburgh
[ ]	London
[ ]	New York

It has been used to explain land use in many cities

The function of a settlement can be what?

[ ]	Its age
[ ]	Its shape
[ ]	The land it is built on
[x]	The uses people have for it

Function can also be the reason why it was built

A housing area on the edge of a town is called what?

[ ]	Sub-standard
[ ]	Subterfuge
[ ]	Subterranean
[x]	Suburb

What type of houses are joined together in a line?

[ ]	Detached
[ ]	Prefabricated
[ ]	Semi-detached
[x]	Terraced

Built from the 19th century onwards

Settlements that follow a transport route are called what?

[ ]	Elongated
[ ]	Lateral
[x]	Linear
[ ]	Serpentine

Linear settlements sometimes follow a valley floor

Which of these settlements is the smallest?

[ ]	Conurbation
[x]	Hamlet
[ ]	Town
[ ]	Village

A hamlet has a few houses and no services

10.

The edge of an urban area is the rural-urban what?

[ ]	Fence
[x]	Fringe
[ ]	Parting
[ ]	Partition