Settlement Patterns
A type of settlement where homes are spread out over a large area, often found in rural places
What is scattered settlement?
reas with high population density, typically large cities with infrastructure.
What are urban areas?
The formula for calculating population density.
What is total population divided by total land area?
Clean, fresh water from sources like taps, safe for drinking.
What is whitewater?
The process when forest/trees are cut down to create land ready for houses, shops, industry and farmlands. Displacing wildlife, creating arid land and ultimately increasing the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere.
What is Deforestation?
This type of settlement is arranged in a line, often along a road or river.
What is linear settlement?
Areas with low population density, often open spaces or farmlands.
A type of map that uses colors to show different data values across a region.
What is a choropleth map?
Wastewater from sinks and showers, free of human waste.
What is greywater?
Dawson city is known for what resource?
What is Gold?
A settlement where homes are grouped closely around a central feature like a marketplace.
What is clustered settlement?
Residential areas on the outskirts of cities with medium density, often commuter communities.
What are suburban areas?
The number of people living per unit area, like people per square kilometer.
What is population density?
The climate zone located near the equator, known for warmth and humidity.
What is the tropical climate zone?
The process which gives more land back so that it can be reused for wildlife or human settlements
What is Land Reclamation?
The spread of people across an area, influenced by geography and resources.
What is population distribution?
This type of expansion spreads low-density developments into rural areas.
What is urban sprawl?
The way people are spread out across an area, like in cities or rural places.
What is population distribution?
Climate zone with four seasons and moderate temperatures.
What is the temperate climate zone?
When land becomes a dry desert that cannot grow anything.
What is desertification?
Our community is an example of this settlement pattern?
What is a clustered settlement?
When we say that most Canadians live along the southern border we are describing...
What is Population distribution?
Wastewater that includes human waste, such as from toilets.
What is blackwater?
When a resource town ultimately runs out of it's resource leading to a major decline in population due to people moving away.
What is a ghost town?