Settlements 2

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Settlements are colonies where people live such as hamlets and cities. Settlements have developed over time and most include constructed facilities such as roads which link them together with other settlements, enclosures for livestock, fields systems for growing crops, ditches for drainage, ponds for waterfowl and fish, parks for leisure, woods and churches. People live together for convenience and to be social.

Find out more about how towns, villages and cities link together and how they have developed in this quiz. Can you get all ten questions right?

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1 .

What often developed at the mouth of rivers?

Seaside towns

Public houses

Ports

Hamlets

Ports were important places for sending goods abroad, and rivers provided transport of the goods to the port

2 .

What would cause the population of a settlement to increase?

New factories creating lots of jobs for people

Building of a school

Link to other villages by railroad

The building of a town hall

People like to live quite near to where they work so if a factory was built in a town the people who work there might move to the town as well

3 .

Which is the largest type of settlement?

Hamlet

City

Town

Village

London is the largest city in the UK

4 .

Which of these connections would not link two cities?

Motorway

Road

Footpath

Railway

Footpaths link shorter distances, like villages or parts of a town

5 .

What might cause a village to become a city?

Building of a hospital

Population increase

Link to other villages by road

Building of a cathedral

As the population grows, more houses and facilities such as hospitals will be built. There are some cities that do not have cathedrals, for example, Wolverhampton

6 .

Which of these is NOT a method of crossing a river?