Lesson Y7-U04-L03

Y7-U04-L03 The Settlement Hierarchy Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 4

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U04-L03, The Settlement Hierarchy: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 4: Year 7: Population and Settlement, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is the smallest settlement type?

    • A hamlet, with a few houses and fewer than 100 people
    • A village, with a few hundred to a thousand people
    • A city, with 100,000 or more people
    • A town, with thousands of people and a high street

  2. What is the largest settlement type?

    • A town, with thousands of people and a high street
    • A hamlet, with a few houses and fewer than 100 people
    • A city, with 100,000 or more people
    • A village, with a few hundred to a thousand people

  3. Put these settlement types in order from smallest to largest.

    • Village, hamlet, city, town
    • Hamlet, village, town, city
    • City, town, village, hamlet
    • Town, city, hamlet, village

  4. Roughly how many people live in a hamlet?

    • Several thousand
    • Fewer than 100
    • A few hundred
    • 100,000 or more

  5. Roughly how many people does a city have?

    • Thousands, but fewer than 10,000
    • A few hundred
    • Fewer than 100
    • 100,000 or more

  6. What does a settlement hierarchy show?

    • The distance between two rivers
    • The types of rock under each town
    • Settlements ranked by size and population
    • The colour of each settlement on a map

  7. On a settlement hierarchy pyramid, where do the largest settlements go?

    • At the narrow top, because there are only a few of them
    • In the middle, because they are between hamlets and towns
    • Outside the pyramid, as they are not part of the hierarchy
    • At the wide bottom, because they hold the most people

  8. Why is the top of the settlement pyramid thin?

    • Cities are much smaller than hamlets
    • Pyramids are always thin at the top
    • Large settlements are always hidden from view
    • There are only a few large cities

  9. Which is bigger, a hamlet or a village?

    • A village, because it has more people
    • Neither, because they are both towns
    • A hamlet, because it has fewer houses
    • They are the same size

  10. Which is bigger, a village or a town?

    • They have exactly the same population
    • A town, because it has thousands of people
    • A village, because it has a primary school
    • A village, because it has a pub

  11. A settlement has a corner shop, a pub and a primary school. Which settlement type is it most likely to be?

    • A large town with many hospitals
    • A city
    • A village
    • A hamlet with no services at all

  12. Name one service that you would find ONLY in a city, not a hamlet.

    • A primary school
    • A village shop
    • A large hospital
    • A pub on the corner

  13. Why does a city have more services than a village?

    • It has more people to use the services, so more can stay open
    • Cities are closer to the sea, which brings more services
    • Villages are not allowed to have any services by law
    • Cities are older than villages, so they have more shops

  14. A hamlet has no shop. What is the most likely problem for the people who live there?

    • They must travel out of the hamlet to buy food and goods
    • They have no houses to live in at all, so they sleep in the open fields
    • They are forced to move into a city to live, because the hamlet has no houses left
    • They can buy everything they need in the hamlet's pub, which also sells food

  15. Why might a small town grow into a city over many years?

    • It would lose all its houses, which would make the settlement bigger over time
    • Its population must shrink each year, so it has to become a city to survive
    • It would move to a new site on the coast, where the land is wider and flatter
    • Its population could grow, so it would attract more shops and services

  16. A village's population doubles. What is the most likely change to its services?

    • Its services would stay the same, as population has no effect
    • It would become a hamlet with fewer services
    • It would have more services, as more customers are available
    • Its services would stop completely

  17. Which of these best links a settlement's size to the services it has?

    • The smaller the settlement, the more universities it has
    • The bigger the settlement, the more services it can support
    • Settlement size has no link with services at all
    • Only hamlets can support hospitals and stadiums

  18. Which card sort clue belongs under 'City'?

    • Has a university and a stadium
    • Has one small shop and a pub
    • Has a single primary school
    • About 500 people live here

  19. Which of these is a service?

    • A school
    • A hill
    • A hamlet
    • A river

  20. A geographer finds 40 hamlets and only 3 cities in one region. Which statement best explains this pattern?

    • Hamlets are always larger than cities in population
    • There are many small settlements and only a few large cities
    • Hamlets are rare, but cities are very common in every region
    • Cities and hamlets are always found in equal numbers

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