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Karnataka 2nd PUC Geography Question Bank Chapter 5 Human Settlements<\/h2>\n

2nd PUC Geography Human Settlements One Mark Questions with Answers<\/h3>\n

Question 1.
\nWhat is Settlement?
\nAnswer:
\nSettlement means the places inhabited by people permanently in village, a town or a city is called Settlement.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nWhat is rural settlement?
\nAnswer:
\nAll settlement not Qualifying for an URBAN Status are called rural settlement. They are engaged mainly in Primary activities.<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\nWhat are wet point settlement?
\nAnswer:
\nNormally rural settlements are located near water points like rivers, lakes and springs where water can obtain easily. These settlement are aslo known as \u2018Wet point settlements\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Question 4.
\nWhat are Hamlets?
\nAnswer:
\nThese are smaller than villages and lacking of public utilities.<\/p>\n

Question 5.
\nWhich is the first million city of the world?
\nAnswer:
\nLondon by around 1810.<\/p>\n

Question 6.
\nWhat is a city?
\nAnswer:
\nA densely populated area of considerable size is a city which is larger than a town. An urban center with 1 lakh and more Population is called a city.<\/p>\n

Question 7.
\nDefine the meaning of Megalopolies?
\nAnswer:
\nMegalopolies is a Greek word which means \u201cGreat city \u201d consisting of several sites merging with the suburbs of one or more cities.<\/p>\n

Question 8.
\nWhat is Mega city?
\nAnswer:
\nMega city is a metropolitan area with total Population of more than 10 million people.<\/p>\n

Question 9.
\nWhich is the largest mega city in the world?
\nAnswer:
\nNewyork is the largest mega city in the world.<\/p>\n

Question 10.
\nDefine the term \u2018conurbation\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nThe term Conurbation applies to a large area of urban development that resulted from the merging of several towns of cities.<\/p>\n

Question 11.
\nWhat is Random Pattern.
\nAnswer:
\nIt is a type of settlement in this neither very closer to each other nor highly dispersed.<\/p>\n

Question 12.
\nWhat is Linear Pattern.
\nAnswer:
\nIn such settlements, houses are located along a road, railway line, river, and canal.<\/p>\n

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Question 13.
\nWhat is Double Village.
\nAnswer:
\nThese settlements extend on both sides of a river where there is a bridge.<\/p>\n

Question 14.
\nHow many million cities are there in the world.
\nAnswer:
\nApproximately 180 cities.<\/p>\n

Question 15.
\nWhat is Break points.
\nAnswer:
\nThe point of changing transport modes like sea route to land route can be called as \u201cBreak points\u201d.<\/p>\n

Question 16.
\nWhat is Star shaped pattern.
\nAnswer:
\nWhere several roads meets, Star shaped settlements develop as the houses are built along the roads.<\/p>\n

Question 17.
\nWhat is town.
\nAnswer:
\nA town is one in a rural community, having much smaller in size of population than a city.<\/p>\n

Question 18.
\nWhat is Economic problems.
\nAnswer:
\nIncreasing population in the urban centers causes unemployment. It is called economic problems.<\/p>\n

Question 19.
\nWhich are the areas that are suitable for the Tourist centres.
\nAnswer:
\nThe place where it has specific natural scenery, a good landscape a beach or greenery may become the tourist centres.<\/p>\n

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Question 20.
\nWhat is environmental problems?
\nAnswer:
\nUrbanization causes deterioration of environment quality by pollutions and disposal of waste.<\/p>\n

2nd PUC Geography Human Settlements Two Marks Questions with Answers<\/h3>\n

Question 1.
\nDefine rural and urban settlements?
\nAnswer:
\nRural settlements: are the settlements whose occupants are engaged mainly on Primary activity like Agriculture & animal Husbandary etc.
\nUrban Settlements : The word urban means town or a city it is larger then the villages. These are dominated by Secondary and Tertiary occupations.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nMention the important pattern of rural settlements?
\nAnswer:
\nThere are 5 important pattern of rural settlements.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Uniform Pattern<\/li>\n
  2. Clustered Patttem<\/li>\n
  3. RANDOM Pattern<\/li>\n
  4. Dispersed Pattern<\/li>\n
  5. Hamlets Pattern.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Question 3.
    \nDefine city & million city?
    \nAnswer:
    \nCity : The urban center with 1 lakh and more population is called a city.
    \nMillion city : Total Population of 1 million and above the urban area is known as million city.<\/p>\n

    Question 4.
    \nGive two examples of Educational towns?
    \nAnswer:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Mysore<\/li>\n
    2. Dharwad.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Question 5.
      \nMention any two cultural & religious towns?
      \nAnswer:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Mecca<\/li>\n
      2. Rome<\/li>\n
      3. Puri<\/li>\n
      4. Varanasi<\/li>\n
      5. Madurai.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Question 6.
        \nList out the trading & commercial towns of the world?
        \nAnswer:<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Mumbai<\/li>\n
        2. Lahore<\/li>\n
        3. Baghdad<\/li>\n
        4. Pittsburg and Jamshedpur.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Question 7.
          \nGive two examples of administration towns.
          \nAnswer:<\/p>\n

            \n
          1. New Delhi<\/li>\n
          2. Canberra<\/li>\n
          3. Beijing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Question 8.
            \nDistinguish between Uniform Pattern and Clustered Pattern of Settlements.
            \nAnswer:
            \nThe distribution of houses which indicate the equal distribution of resources can be called as \u2018Uniform Pattern\u201d.
            \nA cluster pattern refers to the settlements which are very closer to each other. These are located near the rivers, fertile lands, mining points etc.<\/p>\n

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            Question 9.
            \nDistinguish between Rectangular Pattern and Circular Pattern of rural settlements.
            \nAnswer:
            \nThe roads are’rectangular and cut each other at right angles along which houses are built is known as rectangular pattern.
            \nCircular village develop around Lakes, tanks. The Central part remains open and is used for keeping the animals to protect them from wild animals.<\/p>\n

            Question 10.
            \nDefine \u201cPull and Push factors\u201d of Urbanization.
            \nAnswer:
            \nThe facilities of the cities attract people from the rural areas which are called “\u2018pull factors\u201d. In contract rural areas have many problems which force people to migrate outwards, are called push factors.<\/p>\n

            Question 11.
            \nWhat is occupational structure of urban settlements?
            \nAnswer:
            \nThe Economic activities is an important criteria for designing occupational structure of urban settlements interms of population size & their occupation. The secondary & tertian occupations are predominant in the urban areas.<\/p>\n

            Question 5.
            \nWrite the important problems of slums.
            \nAnswer:<\/p>\n

              \n
            1. Poverty<\/li>\n
            2. Housing problems<\/li>\n
            3. Sanitation problems &<\/li>\n
            4. Scarcity of water facilities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Question 6.
              \nWrite about the \u2018dry point settlements\u2019.
              \nAnswer:
              \nThe houses are built on stilts to protect from floods, as well as from the wild animals, those are called ‘dry point settlements\u2019.<\/p>\n

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              2nd PUC Geography Human Settlements Five Marks Questions with Answers<\/h3>\n

              Question 1.
              \nExplain the patterns of rural settlement.
              \nAnswer:
              \nThe term \u2018settlement pattern\u2019 refers to the spatial arrangement of houses.
              \nThe rural settlement pattern may be mainly classified into following types.<\/p>\n

                \n
              1. Uniform pattern : A Unifonn pattern of settlement is the distribution of houses which indicate the equal distribution of resources.<\/li>\n
              2. Clustered pattern : A Cluster pattern refers to the settlements which are very closer to each other. These patterns are located near the rivers, fertile lands, mining points etc.<\/li>\n
              3. Random pattern : In this type of settlements neither they are clustering not highly dispersed.<\/li>\n
              4. Dispersed settlements : In this, the settlements, the houses are located away from each other individually for Ex: farm houses. This kind of settlement is also called scattered settlements.<\/li>\n
              5. Hamlets : Thses are smaller than villages lacking of Public utilities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                Question 2.
                \nExplain the shapes-of rural settlements.
                \nAnswer:
                \nThe rural settlements are of different shapes such as:-<\/p>\n

                  \n
                1. LINEAR PATTERN – In such settlements, houses are located along a road railway line, river and canal, edge of a valley.<\/li>\n
                2. RECTANGULAR PATTERN – Such patterns of rural settlements are found in plain areas or wide inter mountain valleys. The roads are rectangular and cut each other at right angles along which house are built.<\/li>\n
                3. CIRCULAR PATTERN – Circular villages developed around lakes, tanks and sometimes the villages is planned in such a way that the Central part remains open to protect the domestic animal from wild life.<\/li>\n
                4. STAR SHAPED PATTERN – Where the several roads meets, star shaped settlements develop as the houses built along the roads.<\/li>\n
                5. T, X, Y AND T SHAPED SETTLEMENTS – These settlements develop at tri\u00acjunctions of the roads.<\/li>\n
                6. DOUBLE VILLAGE – These settlements extend on both sides of a river where there is a bridge.<\/li>\n
                7. TRIANGULAR PATTERN – This shape of settlements set by the confluence of two rivers and also the junction point of two railway lines are often triangular.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                  Question 3.
                  \nDiscuss the problems of rural settlements.
                  \nAnswer:
                  \nSome of the most important common problems of rural settlements are –<\/p>\n

                    \n
                  • Supply of water is most inadequate. People in the rural areas particularly in mountain and desert region walks for long distances to Fetch drinking water.<\/li>\n
                  • The Water borne disease such as cholera, jaundice etc, are the common problems.<\/li>\n
                  • Many rural areas are facing the problems of natural diasters which occur frequently such as floods and droughts.<\/li>\n
                  • Agriculture areas are severely affected due to lacking of irrigation.<\/li>\n
                  • Being dominated by agriculture the effects of droughts are severe and have effects which strech for many years.<\/li>\n
                  • The ruraljiouses are lacking toilet and disposal facilities of solid waster\/garbages which cause health related problems.<\/li>\n
                  • The houses are made up of mud, wood and thatch which are damaged by heavy rains & floods. They require proper maintainance every year.<\/li>\n
                  • Most of the houses do not have proper ventilation and the design of the houses also includes animal shed with fodder storage.<\/li>\n
                  • The rural settlements are lacking roads and other modem communications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                    Question 4.
                    \nDescribe the types of Urban settlements.
                    \nAnswer:
                    \nThe types of Urban settlements are designated as towns, cities, million cities etc. It is based on their size of population.<\/p>\n

                      \n
                    • Town – A town is one in a rural community, having much smaller in size of a population than a city.<\/li>\n
                    • City – A densely populated area of considerable size is a city which is larger than a town. An urban center with 1 lakh and more population is called a city.<\/li>\n
                    • Conurbation – The term conurbation applies to a large area of urban development that resulted from the merging of several towns of cities eg: Greater London. Greater Mumbai etc.<\/li>\n
                    • Megalopolis – Megalopolis are the extended urban or metropoliton area, typically consisting of several sites merging with the suburbs of one or more cities.<\/li>\n
                    • Million City – Total population of 1 million and above, the urban area is known as million cities.
                      \nThe total number of million cities was 160 in 1975, 438 in 2005 & 468 in 2013.<\/li>\n
                    • Mega city – A megacity is a general term for cities together with their suburbs with population of more than 10 million people or megacity is defined as a metropolitan area with total population in excess of 10 million people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      Newyork was the first to attain the status of a megacity by 1950 with population of 12.5 million.<\/p>\n

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                      Question 5.
                      \nExplain the Urban settlements based on occupation and functions.
                      \nAnswer:
                      \nThe Urban settlements based on occupation and functions are as follows.<\/p>\n

                      1. Occupational structure – The Economic activities such as secondary and tertiary- occupations are predominant in Urban area.<\/p>\n

                      2. Functions – All urban settlements have some common functions. The following are the important urban functions.<\/p>\n

                        \n
                      • Administration towns – Some urban centers are engaged in administrative function which may be termed as the good administrative centres. Eg. NewDelhi, Canberra, Beijing Addis Abada, Washington D C and London,<\/li>\n
                      • Trading and Commercial towns – Now a days many towns are turned into trading and commercial functions such as market centers like Mumbai.\n
                          \n
                        • Additional functions which the cities are performing like industrial are Pittsburg and Jamshedpur, Mumbai, Manchester, Shangai, Tokyo.<\/li>\n
                        • Mining and quarrying – Dhanbad, Johannesburg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                        • Cultural and religious towns – The places of pilagrimage and worship like Jerusalem, Mecca, Rome, Puri Jagannath, Varanasi, Mathura, Madhurai.are the important cultural and religious towns.<\/li>\n
                        • Educational towns – Some urban centres are well known for education with good institutions, such as schools, colleges and univerisities. Eg. Aligarh, Mysore, Oxford, Dharwad. Cambridge etc.<\/li>\n
                        • Tourist centres – The place where it has specific natural scenery, a good landscape a beach or greenery may become the tourist centres.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                          Question 6.
                          \nDiscuss the problems of urban settlements.
                          \nAnswer:
                          \nLarge scale urbanizations results with many problems.<\/p>\n

                            \n
                          • Economic problems – Increasing population in the urban centres causes unemployment.<\/li>\n
                          • Socio-cultural problems\n
                              \n
                            • Increasing the population results in lacking of social sendees as they cannot reach to everyone.<\/li>\n
                            • Insufficient financial resources fail to create adequate social infrastructure and scarcity ‘ to the basic needs of huge population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                            • Environment problems – Urbanization also causes deterioration of environment quality by pollutions and disposal of waste.,<\/li>\n
                            • Problems of slums\n
                                \n
                              • Slums are the most important and severe problem of urban settlements.<\/li>\n
                              • Poverty, housing, sanitation, water facilities are the problems.<\/li>\n
                              • Now-a-days the slums are occupying a large space of the urban centres and are still expanding.<\/li>\n
                              • Ex: Dharavi of Central Mumbai is the fastest grown and the largest slum of Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                Question 7.
                                \nExplain the factors affecting the location of rural settlements.
                                \nAnswer:<\/p>\n

                                  \n
                                • Water supply : Normalv rural settlements are located near water points like rivers, Lakes and springs where water can be obtianed easily.<\/li>\n
                                • Land : Most of the people settle near the fertile land for agriculture purposes.<\/li>\n
                                • Upland location : In the flood plains and marshy lands people have built settlements on highter areas for the sake of protection.<\/li>\n
                                • Building materials : Rural settlements are constructed with available building materials like mud, wood and stone etc.<\/li>\n
                                • Defence : Due to political instability and hostility villages were built on hills and islands. In india most of the forts are located on higher grounds or hills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                  Question 8.
                                  \nWrite a brief note on Urban Settlements.
                                  \nAnswer:
                                  \nUrbanization is the most modem trend of the world. More than 51 percent of the world population is living in the urban areas. They are involved in the functions such as administration, education, industrial as well a’s socio-cultural activities,<\/p>\n

                                    \n
                                  • The word urban is generally used to mean a city or a town, which in larger than villages and engaged in secondary & tertiary occupations.
                                    \nAcording to census of India, the urban refers to a settlement which fulfil the following criteria.<\/li>\n
                                  • All places with a municipality, corporation, contonment board or notified town area committee etc and all other places which satisfied the following criteria:-\n
                                      \n
                                    • A minimum population of5,000;<\/li>\n
                                    • At least 75 percent of the male working population engaged in non-agricultural<\/li>\n
                                    • A density of population of a least 400 persons per, sq.km area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                                    • On account of all facilities urban centers are growing rapidly with large influx of population.<\/li>\n
                                    • Approximately 180 cities on the world have emerged as Million cities.<\/li>\n
                                    • Industrial development and commercialization have also boosted rapid urbanization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                      Thus in the year 1900 the urban population of the world was only 14 percent under the total world population and it has increased to 51 percent in 2013.<\/p>\n

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