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Chapter 19 Test
Landscapes of Rural Settlement
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Geography
9th Grade
11/08/2008

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What are dwellings made of?
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Local materials
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What does dense population cause?
Definition
More intensive crop cultivation
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What needs a large labor force?(intensive)
Definition
Nucleated settlement
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What doesn't need a large labor force?(extensive)
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Dispersed settlement
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What settlement pattern is prevalent around the world?
Definition
Nucleated settlement patterns
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When did the first human communities exist?
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100,000(one hundred thousand) years ago
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What are the 4 recognized house types?
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Unchanged-traditional dwellings, Modified- traditional dwellings, Modernized-traditional dwellings and Modern dwellings
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Houses in which layout, contruction, and appearance have not been significantly altered by external influences over the past century. Such house may be modified over time WITHIN the culture, not borrowing from other cultures.
Definition
Unchanged-traditional dwellings
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New building materials have been used or elements added that do not fundamentally alter their original structure or layout
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Modified-Traditional dwellings
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Building materials, floor plans, and general layout are altered. elements of traditional house persist, modernization has taken over tradition.
Definition
Modernized-Traditional dwellings
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Houses with advanced technology, upward mobility, practicality, comfort, hygiene and large scale suburbanization.
Definition
Modern dwellings
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What country has the most commonly display of modern houses?
Definition
United States
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What are the 3 traditional houses?
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New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southern Tidewater
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How many floors does a ranch house have?
Definition
1
Term
Where do traditional house types remain the strongest?
Definition
Rural Areas
Term
Where is the highest level of technology found?
Definition
United States
Term
What is the most common building material used in China?
Definition
Wattle
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Where is wood mostly found?
Definition
Wild dwellings
Term
What material is used in cold forest zone in Northern Europe?
Definition
Log cabins
Term
What are most African houses made of?
Definition
Wattle
Term
What region of the world is the leader in wattle construction?
Definition
Southeast Asia
Term
Where were ranch style houses developed?
Definition
California
Term
Why is a house outside of its place of origin bad for the environment?
Definition
Maladaptive diffusion
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What is the smallest type of settlement?
Definition
Hamlets
Term
How many people are needed for a town to be classified as a town?
Definition
2,500(two thousand five hundred)
Term
Most villages in western europe are most likely to have what kind of layout?
Definition
Linear
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What are the walls of a round village used for?
Definition
To protect invasion
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What type of villages are mostly found on water?
Definition
Linear villages
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What origin does the grid village come from?
Definition
Spanish Conquistador's
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Why are houses in Japan so tied together?
Definition
land is very scarce
Term
Where has half the population lived since the 21st century?
Definition
villages and rural areas
Term
What is the most common form of settlement?
Definition
Ugrarian village
Term
In India and South Asia how many villages are there? How many people live in each?
Definition
1 million;1 thousand
Term
After the American Revolution the U.S. Government designed this system to facilitate the dispersal of land across farmlands of the U.S. interior. Formed a ridig, grid-like pattern on the land.
Definition
township-and-range system
Term
In a village how could you tell there is social stratification?
Definition
The higher the social status, the nicer the house is
Term
True or False: The U.S. Midwest lies close together.
Definition
False
Term
What type of settlement pattern does the U.S. have?
Definition
Dispersed
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True or False: Societies that are more complex are more differentiating in the buildings.
Definition
True
Term
True or False: Horegated iron is the roofing used in traditional housing all around the world.
Definition
True
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True or False: Wood is used all around the world due to shipping, and not just used around where it is found.
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True
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True or False: Style is the most important factor in choosing a house.
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False
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True or False: Today building materials don't reflect availability because they can be shipped.
Definition
True
Term
True or False: Wattle houses are found mostly in Tropical Regions.
Definition
True
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True or False: The U.S. township-and-range system was developed in 1950.
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False
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What system divided the land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals.(common in French America)
Definition
Long lot survey
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True or False: Rural areas are small because they don't have a lot of people working in them.
Definition
False
Term
What is one unifying quality of villages?
Definition
Primary activities
Term
What are 2 of the most important functions of villages world wide?
Definition
Harvest crops and accommodate livestock
Term
What is the approach adopted along the eastern seaboard in which natural features were used to demarcate irregular parcels of land?
Definition
Metes and bounds survey
Term
Functional differation buildings were fully developed where...?
Definition
Western South culture
Term
System that delineates property lines and is adopted in places where settlement could be regulated by law, and land surveys were crucial to there implementation.
Definition
Cadastral system
Term
The Germanic system in which all the land passes to the son-parcels tend to be larger and farmers tend a single plot of land.
Definition
Primogeniture
Term
Originated as 1 room, log cabin, stone chimney, fire place at the end, porch added.
Definition
Southern tidewater
Term
1 story, smaller due to climate.
Definition
Mid-Atlantic
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