1. Settlement Revision Booket
Year 10

2. Definitions- Key Words
Site
Situation
Function
Settlement
Urban
Rural
Urbanisation
Counterurbanisation
De-industrialisation
Greenfield site
Brownfield Site
Brownfield Potential
Slums
Rural-urban migration
Renewal
Redevelopment

3. Height above Sea Level Defence Shelter Water supply Aspect Land
Factors
Affecting the site
of a settlement
Water supply
Aspect
Land
Resources
Communications

4. Affecting the situation
Factors
Affecting the situation
of a settlement
If you are asked to describe the situation of a settlement; try to use the following as a guide;
Places
Accessibility
Relief
Communications
Describe the situation of Liverpool (4

5. Settlement Shapes
Nucleated or clustered
Dispersed or fragmented
Linear

6. Functions of settlement
Port
Market town
Commercial settlement
The function of a settlement describes all the main activities that occur in it
Industrial/ Manufacturing
Mining town
Commuter town
Tourist town
Heritage settlement

7. Reasons for Counter-urbanisation

8. Explain the changes to rural areas caused by counter-urbanisation
Answer:
June 2012
Explain the changes to rural areas caused by counter-urbanisation
Use examples in your answer

9. Impacts of the Depopulation of remote
rural areas
There are a number of social and economic consequences to the movement of people out of these areas
Social;
Economic

10. Negative impacts of deindustrialisation
Why did Liverpool deindustrialise?
How did Liverpool industrialise?
Positive impacts of deindustrialisation

11. Explain the consequences of de-industrialisation in the UK
January 2011
Explain the consequences of de-industrialisation in the UK
Use examples in your answer
Answer:

13. Case study of the effects of rapid Growth on a LIC urban area
Cairo - Egypt

14. June 2010
Chose an urban area in a LIC which has experienced rapid population growth
Explain the reasons for this growth
June 2011
Explain the impacts of this rapid growth
January 2012
Explain the negative impacts of this rapid growth