Settlements
Revision Test
Name: _________________
Circle the correct word
1. Ireland’s first settled on the east / west of the country.
2. They arrived in Ireland using boats / land-bridges.
3. Pre-Christian means before / after the birth of Christ.
4. They settled inland / on the coast.
5. Early settlers chose high ground for defence / farming for food.
6. A settlement in the centre of a lake is a crannog / ring fort.
7. Caher / Lios and Dun represent a settlement / burial ground.
8. Former settlements on Ordnance Survey maps are graveyards / antiquities.
9. Settlement patterns can be described as:
10.___________________, _______________ or _______________________
11.The Vikings settled on the North West coast / South East Coast.
12.The Normans took over Viking settlements and stayed on the coast / settled on
the coast and inland.
13.The English and Scottish / French and German were planted in Ulster.
14.A primate city is the biggest city / one that is twice the size of any other city in
the country.
15.The Vikings / Normans were the first to settle in Dublin.
16.The towns that have developed on the roads to Dublin are linear / nucleated /
dispersed.
17.Altitude means how far north a place is / how high the ground is.
18.Most of Irelands towns are located under 200m / 1000m above sea level.
19.If an area on an OS map is flat with no rivers or streams it is well drained /
marshland.
20.A dry-point site is on a hill / beside a river but doesn’t flood.
21.The lowest bridging point of a river is usually the closest to the coast / the
furthest inland.
22.There is a higher density of larger towns in the east / west of Ireland.
23.Lands reclaimed from the sea are polders / dykes.
24.Walls surrounding reclaimed land are polders / dykes.
25.60 % of Dutch / Swedish people live on polders below sea level.
26.Polders for agriculture are planned in a linear / clustered / dispersed pattern
with clusters of farmhouses.
27.An area called Ijsselmeer in Holland / Norway has many polders.
28.Settlements on polders have also been arranged in a cartwheel / diamond
pattern.
29.Medieval walls around a town is evidence of a port / defence function.
30.An abbey, monastery or cathedral is evidence of residential / ecclesiastical
settlement.
31.Waterford was a walled Viking / Norman town in the 11th Century.
32.Waterford has remains of ancient walls. This is evidence of a defence / port
function.
33.Imports and exports are loaded and unloaded in Waterford, it therefore has a
port / ecclesiastical function.
Marks
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