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Grades 6, 7 and 8 - Geography - Middle School - Settlement
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In Geography a 'settlement' means a community of people - it can be permanent or temporary, large or small.

Villages and towns are two types of settlement. A settlement conventionally includes its constructed facilities such as roads, enclosures, field systems, boundary banks and ditches, ponds, parks and woods, mills, manor houses, moats and churches.

Grades 6, 7 and 8 - Geography - Middle School - Settlement
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20 Questions

1. What would you expect to find most of in the CBD?
2. Which of these is an inner city benefit?
3. A house joined to another on only one side is called what?
4. Expanding into the rural-urban fringe is called urban what?
5. Settlements that follow a transport route are called what?
6. Where in a city is land most expensive?
7. Semi-detached houses were first built in large numbers in which decade?
8. Settlements with widely spread buildings are called what?
9. What is the area of ground on which a settlement is built?
10. Row houses were originally built for which group of people?
11. What means the location of a settlement in relation to surrounding features?
12. Burgess made a 1924 land use model for which city?
13. What type of houses are joined together in a line?
14. The function of a settlement can be what?
15. In what settlement are buildings closely grouped?
16. To help understand settlements we use a land use what?
17. A housing area on the edge of a town is called what?
18. Building is restricted in which zone?
19. Which of these settlements is the smallest?
20. The edge of an urban area is the rural-urban what?