Settlements

Q.

What Is the Meaning of Dikus

Q. What are the natural factors affecting the human settlements?

1. Availability of water
2. Climate
3. Ethnicity
4. Slope of the land

Q. What is a nomadic way of life?

1. A village settlement
2. A civil society
3. Moving from place-to-place
4. An ecosystem shift

Q. What brought an end to the nomadic lifestyle of ancient people?

1. Trading
2. Seafaring
3. Agriculture
4. War

Q. Settlements are places where people build their homes.

1. True
2. False

Q. Early humans were hunter-gatherers, they led a nomadic lifestyle until something revolutionary happened, what was this event?

1. Discovery of fire
2. Discovery of weapons
3. Discovery of the art of agriculture
4. Discovery of wheel

Q. Ananya lives in a village. Her village is a temple town, and all the settlements in her village have been built around a large temple. Which type of settlement pattern do you think her village is constructed in?

1. Linear pattern
2. Rectangular pattern
3. Circular pattern
4. Cubical pattern

Q. Where do you find linear settlements in India?

1. Near the rivers
2. Near the transport routes
3. Hilly areas
4. Industrial region

Q. Settlement is the way we organise ourselves and our living spaces in a place.

1. True
2. False

Q. Imagine you are living with your family in the Old Stone Age. Your family is starving for food. What would you do immediatly?

1. Agriculture
2. Cooking Food
3. Hunt animals
4. Gather nuts

Q. ___ is the geographical area where we live and work.

1. Migration
2. Cultivation
3. Settlement
4. Mapping

Q. Parthu heard about how the earliest people used to move around. He wondered how they used to eat and why they used to move around as much. His teacher told him, "You can find the answer to your question in the name we use to address those people". Which of the following names do you think we can use to describe them?

1. Foragers
2. Hunters
3. Gatherers
4. Hunter-gatherers

Q. Consider the following pairs:

Type of settlement pattern - Associated Region

1. Linear settlement pattern - Houses are arranged along either side of a road, railway line, river or canal.

2. Dispersed settlement pattern - The buildings are spread out and are often found in upland areas.

3. Circular and Semi-Circular Pattern - The fishermen and salt producers develop their settlements along the sea coasts and salt lakes.

Which of the above is/are correctly paired?

1. 1 only
2. 2 and 3 only
3. 1 and 3 only
4. 1, 2 and 3

Q. ____________ is the kind of settlement, where there is usually a central feature. It could be a water body, a pasture or a place of worship, and all the dwellings are built around it.

1. Linear settlement
2. Star pattern settlement
3. Circular settlement
4. T shape settlement

Q. Choose the correct options.

Assertion A] - Nomads never stay in one place.

Reason R] - Nomadas practice the hunting, gathering, trading animals.

1. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
2. A is false but R is true.
3. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
4. A is true but R is false.

Q. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Settlements which are developed alongside a road or a river are called ________.

1. Scattered settlements
2. Nuclear settlements
3. Linear settlements
4. Temporary settlements

Q. The clusters of permanent or temporary human habitats of different sizes are termed as ___________.

1. Civilisation
2. Human clusters
3. Society
4. Settlements

Q. Most of the population increase in cities is due to the____________ within the urban areas.

1. Increased development
2. Natural population growth
3. Residential areas
4. Clean surroundings

Q. Nomads usually don't have a permanent home.

1. True
2. False

Q. Permanent settlements are not abandoned and remain continuously in use for a ________.

1. short period
2. long period
3. year
4. none of these

Q. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Consider the following statement and choose the correct answer: Settlement is the ____ area where we live and work.

1. Social
2. Political
3. Economical
4. Geographical

Q. Settlements are represented by coloured boxes.

1. white
2. brown
3. black
4. red

Q. What kind of settlements typically develop in clusters?

1. Scattered
2. Linear
3. Nuclear
4. Industrial

Q. In a ___________, dwellings are located along a single line, most commonly, a road, railway line, or river.

1. Linear settlement
2. Star pattern settlement
3. Circular settlement
4. T shape settlement

Q. Explain the various types of human settlements __________________.

1. Scattered settlements.
2. Linear settlements.
3. All of the above.
4. Nucleated settlements.

Q. Settlement is the geographical area where we and . Select your options in an alphabetical order.

1. live
2. learn
3. play
4. work

Q. Settlement is the way we organise ourselves and our living spaces in a place.

1. True
2. False

Q. Nuclear settlements always develop alongside a road or a river.

1. True
2. False

Q. Write short notes on the following:

Q. Which among the following options are classified based on density of settlements in an area.

1. Nucleated settlement
2. Dispersed settlement
3. Linear settlement
4. Star pattern settlement