Settlement Patterns
This type of settlement involves people living far apart from one another, often found in agricultural areas where large farms are common.
What is a scattered settlement?
This term refers to the average number of people living in a specific area, usually calculated as people per square kilometre.
What is Population Density?
This category of land use includes factories, warehousing, and manufacturing plants.
What is Industrial land use?
The "3 Rs" strategy used to manage waste and make settlements more sustainable.
What are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
This term describes an area located outside of towns and cities, often characterized by low population density and farming.
What is Rural?
This settlement pattern features homes and buildings grouped closely together, typically found in towns and cities.
What is a clustered settlement?
War, famine, and lack of jobs are examples of this type of factor that forces people to leave their home country.
What are Push Factors?
This is the most common type of land use in a city, covering areas where people live.
What is Residential land use?
Solar panels, wind turbines, and hydroelectric dams are examples of this type of energy that helps sustainable settlements.
What is Renewable Energy?
Usually smaller than a town, this type of settlement typically has only a few services, like a general store or a gas station.
What is a Village (or Hamlet)?
You would likely find this settlement pattern developing along a major river, coastline, or highway.
What is a linear settlement?
This term describes the pattern of where people live across the world (e.g., most people live near coastlines).
What is Population Distribution?
This is the process of creating new land from oceans, riverbeds, or lakebeds, often used in places like Japan or the Netherlands to create more space.
What is Land Reclamation?
This measurement calculates the total area of land and water required to support a person's lifestyle and absorb their waste.
What is an Ecological Footprint?
This is a residential district located on the outskirts of a city; people here often commute into the city for work.
What is a Suburb?
Introduced by French settlers along the St. Lawrence River, this system divided land into long, narrow strips to ensure every farmer had access to the river for transportation.
What is the Long Lot System (or Seigneurial System)?
This global trend describes the mass movement of people from rural areas (countryside) into cities.
What is Urbanization?
This occurs when different stakeholders want to use the same piece of land for different purposes (e.g., building a highway over farmland).
What is a Land Use Conflict?
A sustainable city might encourage high-density housing (like condos) to prevent the loss of this valuable resource surrounding the city.
What is Agricultural Land (or Farmland/Green Space)?
To be classified as a Megacity, an urban area must have a population exceeding this specific number.
What is 10 Million people?
Historically, the "Golden Horseshoe" in Ontario developed a dense population pattern primarily because of these two physical factors.
What are fertile soil (or agriculture potential) and access to water (Great Lakes/transportation)?
If a country has a "sparse" population density, it likely has this type of physical environment (name one example).
What is a desert, mountain, or polar region (extreme climate)?
Often seen in Ontario suburbs, this issue involves the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas into the surrounding countryside/farmland.
What is Urban Sprawl?
This specific transportation strategy reduces pollution and traffic congestion by moving large numbers of people efficiently (e.g., subways, LRTs).
What is Mass Transit (or Public Transit)?
At the very top of the settlement hierarchy are cities like London, New York, and Tokyo. These cities are classified as this because they hold significant power and influence over the entire global economy, not just their own country.
What is a World City (or Global City)?