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Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 9

Where People Settle

Natural and human factors

What your child practises

Practises how natural and human factors influence where people settle, and how settlement patterns look on a map.

Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: SCO3 · how natural and human factors influence settlement patterns

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A map shows dots clustered around a harbour. What can you infer?

    • Nobody lives near water
    • The harbour is empty
    • People settle near the harbour
    • The area is a desert

  2. Question 2

    Which compares two settlements well?

    • They are exactly equal in every way
    • One is nicer to look at than the other
    • One is a port with jobs in shipping; the other is a farm town
    • Both are in exactly the same place

  3. Question 3

    Why are high mountain areas often sparsely populated?

    • They have too much soil for plants to grow in
    • They are too close to the sea to be safe
    • They have no air at all up there
    • Steep land and cold weather make farming and building hard

  4. Question 4

    A settlement pattern where farmhouses are spread far apart is called…

    • dispersed (scattered)
    • tight and packed around a centre
    • clustered, in one tight group
    • linear, along a single road

  5. Question 5

    Which describes a rural area?

    • a large airport with many runways
    • a countryside area with farms and small communities
    • a busy shopping district in a big city
    • a downtown with tall buildings and many offices

  6. Question 6

    How might climate change affect low coastal settlements?

    • Rising seas and storms may force people to move
    • The coast will move farther out to sea
    • They will grow larger by default as the water rises
    • Nothing will change at all for the settlement

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