Question

2. What is the basis for classifying settlements as rural and urban?
3. Name the five patterns of settlements.​

Answer 1

Answer:

2.Size and housing density are used together with settlement functions to classify settlements into major categories i.e.rural and urban. Rural settlements are often small in size and have low housing and population densities. Urban settlements are larger in size and have many houses built close together.

3.There are 5 types of settlement classified according to their pattern, these are, isolated, dispersed, nucleated, and linear. An isolated settlement consists of a single farm or house very remote from any other one, usually found in farming or hunting rural communities

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