Key Terms(19)
Distributions of homes, farms, villages, towns, and cities in the area.
Settlement Pattern
Pattern of land division used in an area.
What Transportation influences The Section System?
roads, later railway (access to water less important)
In 2001 what percent of people lived in Urban areas?
85%
Actual number of people by which a city or towns population grows.
Urban Growth
Outside towns and cities.
Rural
A settlement pattern in Southern Quebec, and some other areas of Canada where individual lots tend to be long and narrow and extend back from major rivers or roads.
Long Lot
Name the 3 types of Rural settlement!
- The Section System
- The Long Lot System
- The Concession System
What is the level of Urban Hierarchy has less than 200 people?
Hamlet
Village,town,or city that exists primarily to provide goods and services for a surrounding hinterland.
Central Place
Patterns showing where people live in an area. For example a scattered distribution along a coastline or road.
Population Distribution
A small stream or river that joins a larger stream or river.
Tributary
What Government Policy influence The Long Lot System?
Each settler receives a piece of land along the waterfront.
Taxes increase with increased waterfront.
What does Basic Industry mean?
- Activities that bring money into an urban place. Eg. Hotels, Restaurants, Factories
A total effect on the economy caused by an expansion or contraction in one part of it.
Multiplier Effect
A figure calculated by dividing the population of a region by the regions area.
Population Density
A type of survey system used in southern Ontario where by land is divided by concession roads, and side roads into squares and rectangles or varying sizes.
Concession System
What Transportation influences The Concession System?
started at the lake, but there were roads, later railway (access to water less important, each settlement needed access to a road.)
What are Low Order Goods or Services?
- Goods that are needed for everyday living and purchased frequently. Eg. food, clothing, hardware, post office.
A process of changing from rural to urban.
Urbanization
Permanent settlement of people in an area that is well removed from large urban centres.
Rural Settlement
A survey system in most of the prairie provinces, with units of land 1.6km by 1.6km. When settlers first arrived. they were given a quarter section of land to farm.
Section System
What were the transportation methods at the time of rural settlement?
Before 1800 settlement was based on transportation by water.Settled areas tend to be next to rivers and lakes. Areas settled after 1800 were increasingly based on road and eventually rail.
What are the 5 types of Urban Places
- Transportation Hubs
- Tourist Cities
- Resource Based Communities
- Manufacturing Cities
- Government Centres
A product or service that people buy occasionally.
Middle-Order Good or Service