C. Answer the following questions very briefly.
1. Give one example of temporary settlement.
2. What is the importance of railways in industrial regions?
3. In which two ways do roads have an edge over railways?
4. Give the importance of airways.
5. What are nucleated settlements?
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1)Temporary Settlement: Settlements that are occupied for a short time are temporary settlements. Examples of temporary settlements are; deep forests, hot and cold deserts, mountains. People living in such temporary settlements practice hunting, gathering, shifting cultivation and transhumance.
2)The main reasons for industrial railways are normally for one of two reasons: Onsite shunting and consolidation: part-finished products or goods require movement between different parts of the process site to enable them to be manufactured, or made-ready for shipment.
3)i>the construction cost of roadways is much cheaper than the construction cost of the railways.
ii>Roads can be built hilly and dissected regions while it is difficult to lay railway lines on difficult and rugged terrain.
4)Airways play a vital role during natural and man-made calamities like floods, famines, earthquake, epidemics and war. They help in rescue operations and providing relief to the people in affected areas within short time. Two merits of airways are : (a) It is the fastest mode of transport.
5)A nucleated village or clustered settlement is one of the main types of settlement pattern. It is one of the terms used by geographers and landscape historians to classify settlements. ... polyfocal settlement, two (or more) adjacent nucleated villages that have expanded and merged to form a cohesive overall community.
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