Definitions
A settlement where people live in an urban centre.
What is Urban?
Historically this settlement pattern has occurred along major waterways as these were major transportation and trade routes.
What are Linear Settlements?
The average for a country of how many people live in a square kilometre of land.
What is Population Density?
People want to live where many of these opportunities exist.
What are Economic Factors?
This happens when multiple groups compete for land and/or have varying ideas for how land should be used.
What is Conflict?
A place where people create a community.
What is Settlement?
Settlement is dependent on this availability.
What is Economic Opportunity?
The USA is an example of this category.
What is a Moderate Population?
Living in an area with extreme weather or climate makes daily life difficult.
What are Environmental Factors?
This group strives to build on land to create infrastructure.
Who are Land Developers?
The movement of people from one area to another.
What is Migration?
Settlements where living conditions make it difficult to support large amounts of people.
What are Scattered Settlements?
14 or less people per kilometre2.
What is a Sparse Population?
Soil quality is an important aspect of this factor.
What are Agricultural Factors?
This level of government often supports land development to facilitate economic growth.
What is Municipal Government?
A settlement where people live in a semi-urban location just outside of an urban centre.
What is a Suburb?
Settlements that have been established very close to each other.
What are Clustered Settlements?
Dividing the population of a country by its area.
What is the Population Density Formula?
People who settle in these areas must prepare their settlements to ensure their personal safety.
What are Natural Disaster Factors?
This level of government has legislative power over Indigenous peoples and their land.
What is Federal Government?
Population statistics for a certain area.
What are Demographics?
A real example of where scattered settlements exist.
Where is Northern Canada?
These countries have a small land area in comparison to their large populations.
What is a Dense Population?
Refugees move due to this type of factor.
What are Political Factors?
Land disputes may occur when this group exercises their treaty rights.
Who are the Indigenous Peoples?