Settlement keywords test

Drag the keywords at the bottom of the page over the correct definition. Print out your answers and check by clicking here.

A place where people live –

A settlement shape where the houses are in a line –

A settlement where the houses are all spread out –

A settlement where the houses are all clustered together –

The actual place where a settlement grew up –

Shown on a map by the points of a compass –

How high or low a place is. Measured in metres above sea level –

How the land in towns or the countryside is used. It includes housing, industry and farming. –

The shape of the land surface –

The pattern of land use in a town –

Settlement Linear Dispersed Nucleated Site Direction Height Landuse Aspect Urban model


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