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Settlement types: Nucleated

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  • A settlement that surrounds a point, e.g. a service or cross roads.
  • Services
  • relief e.g. land height and location (rivers)
2
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Settlement types: Linear Settlement

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  • Settlements that grow along a road or along the coast.
  • services
  • relief
3
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Settlement types: Ribbon settlement

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  • Occurs when housing grows from a town following a main road.
4
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Settlement types: Dispersed Settlement

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  • No obvious centre and spead often over fertile farmland.
  • Services (lack of)
  • Area Characteristics (Mining and farming)
  • Primary industry
  • relief (Mountainous)
5
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PDA?

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pattern, data, anomaly

6
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GIS?

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Geographic information systems

7
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Describe how ICT can used to present data that has been collected in the field

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GIS: Using layers combing information in layers on a map to display information.
Excel: create graph displaying information.