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Which description best defines a human settlement?Read the answer and worked solution →When did permanent settlements first develop?Read the answer and worked solution →Before permanent settlements, how did people mainly live?Read the answer and worked solution →Homo sapiens first appeared approximately how many years ago, according to the settlement history?Read the answer and worked solution →The word urban comes from the Latin urbs, which referred to what?Read the answer and worked solution →A satellite city depends strongly on what?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose garden city ideas influenced the concept of satellite cities?Read the answer and worked solution →What is urban sprawl?Read the answer and worked solution →Urban sprawl is strongly linked to which type of development?Read the answer and worked solution →A suburb is typically what kind of area?Read the answer and worked solution →What made long daily commutes practical for suburbs?Read the answer and worked solution →Which features typically describe rural settlements?Read the answer and worked solution →Rural settlements are tied to which economic activity?Read the answer and worked solution →How are buildings arranged in a nucleated settlement?Read the answer and worked solution →Nucleated settlements often grow around what?Read the answer and worked solution →Linear settlements are arranged along what?Read the answer and worked solution →In a dispersed settlement pattern, how are dwellings placed?Read the answer and worked solution →Dispersed settlements are typically made up of which units?Read the answer and worked solution →In an isolated rural settlement, how do households live?Read the answer and worked solution →What does a settlement hierarchy rank settlements by?Read the answer and worked solution →What is true of the top of a settlement hierarchy?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the most basic settlement unit, a single dwelling or small cluster of dwellings?Read the answer and worked solution →A hamlet often lacks which feature that larger settlements have?Read the answer and worked solution →How does a town compare with a village?Read the answer and worked solution →Central place theory explains settlement by what?Read the answer and worked solution →By 5000 years ago, what had emerged?Read the answer and worked solution →What is it called when a journey uses several modes of transport?Read the answer and worked solution →A mode of transport is usually chosen on the basis of which factors?Read the answer and worked solution →Which activities count as human-powered transport?Read the answer and worked solution →Why are animals still useful for transport?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which description best defines a human settlement?

  1. A region shaped only by the weather
  2. A site visited only for trade stops
  3. A forest area closed to all people
  4. A place where people live and work
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Correct answer: D. A place where people live and work

1. A human settlement is a place where people live and carry out social, economic, political and cultural activities. 2. It is created by human activity, not by natural processes alone. 3. Seasonal trading stops, protected forests and purely natural regions do not fit this meaning. _Source: Wikipedia, Human settlement, Definition and scope_

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When did permanent settlements first develop?

  1. Around 500 years ago
  2. Around 2,000 years ago
  3. 10,000 to 5,000 years ago
  4. Around 200,000 years ago
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Correct answer: C. 10,000 to 5,000 years ago

1. The shift to permanent settlement came with the change from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. 2. It happened independently in several regions between about 10,000 and 5,000 years ago. 3. 300,000 years ago is roughly when Homo sapiens first appeared, long before settled life. _Source: Wikipedia, Human settlement, Emergence of permanent settlements_

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Before permanent settlements, how did people mainly live?

  1. Factory workers in towns
  2. Traders in planned suburbs
  3. Farmers in walled cities
  4. Mobile hunter-gatherer groups
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Correct answer: D. Mobile hunter-gatherer groups

1. Homo sapiens lived for most of their existence in mobile groups. 2. Their social life was built around hunting and gathering rather than staying in one place. 3. Farming towns, cities and suburbs came much later. _Source: Wikipedia, Human settlement, Prehistoric origins and nomadic lifeways_

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