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A petrol pump counts as a lower order function in the USA but as what in India?Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian census needs what share of male workers in non-farm jobs for a place to be urban?Read the answer and worked solution →Houses built very close together along a river valley form which settlement type?Read the answer and worked solution →In the loess areas of China, what kind of dwellings were important?Read the answer and worked solution →Villagisation in Ethiopia and canal colonies of the Indira Gandhi canal are examples of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Houses strung along a road, railway or canal form which village pattern?Read the answer and worked solution →A village grows where several roads converge, with houses along each road. Which pattern?Read the answer and worked solution →A settlement stretching on both banks of a river with a bridge is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Which city was the first to reach a population of one million, around AD 1810?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of the world's population lives in urban settlements today?Read the answer and worked solution →The minimum population for an urban place is 5,000 in India. What is it in Japan?Read the answer and worked solution →In Denmark, Sweden and Finland, a place is urban at what population?Read the answer and worked solution →Italy calls a settlement urban if over 50 per cent work outside farming. India sets this at?Read the answer and worked solution →In Brazil and Bolivia what makes any centre urban regardless of size?Read the answer and worked solution →New Delhi, Canberra, Beijing and Washington DC are classed as which kind of town?Read the answer and worked solution →Jerusalem, Mecca, Jagannath Puri and Varanasi are classed as which kind of town?Read the answer and worked solution →Broken Hill and Dhanbad are grouped under which town function?Read the answer and worked solution →The Ethiopian capital's name means New Flower. Which city is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which American landscape architect planned Canberra in 1912?Read the answer and worked solution →Who coined the term conurbation in 1915 for merged towns like Greater London?Read the answer and worked solution →How many cities had at least one million people in 2016?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the capitalsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the village patternsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the urban cut-offsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the pilgrim townsRead the answer and worked solution →Compact or dispersedRead the answer and worked solution →Who coined whatRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Settlements bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A geographer calls human geography the synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and the earth's surface. Who said this?Read the answer and worked solution →

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A petrol pump counts as a lower order function in the USA but as what in India?

  1. A defence function
  2. An urban function
  3. A rural function
  4. A cultural function
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Correct answer: B. An urban function

1. Function ratings differ by country. 2. In the USA a petrol pump is low order. 3. In India it is an urban function. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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The Indian census needs what share of male workers in non-farm jobs for a place to be urban?

  1. 75 per cent
  2. 50 per cent
  3. 25 per cent
  4. 90 per cent
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Correct answer: A. 75 per cent

1. Urban places need 5,000 people. 2. 75 per cent of male workers must be non-agricultural. 3. Density must be 400 per sq km. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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Houses built very close together along a river valley form which settlement type?

  1. Double or twin village
  2. Compact or nucleated
  3. Dispersed or scattered
  4. Linear or roadside
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Correct answer: B. Compact or nucleated

1. Compact settlements have houses close together. 2. They grow in river valleys and fertile plains. 3. Dispersed settlements have houses far apart. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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