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1. Human Settlement Pattern
A human settlement pattern is the science that studies the settlement patterns
of humans by analyzing data. Like data that concludes that people like to live in huge
clusters rather than in an solitary space and why (example America the east coast is more densely populated
because this is where most immigrant ships would arrive and it is near the sea which also provides jobs)
This science is related to anthropology (ex. Why humans adopt a this pattern of living close together
is because of a human’s need for contact and attention etc.), demography (It’s easier to
track how many people live in an country if you knew where people were most likely to live)
and for future references such as when a city is being built governments will note that people
would be more attracted to areas with a greater number of neighbors around them.

2. Clustered Settlement
• A clustered settlement is an assembly residences that are grouped together in very close proximity in that
the number of people per capita of the settlement are much more crowded than in a dispersed settlement
or that of a linear settlement. Most clustered settlements happen because of not enough land or usable
land is available so whatever space is available is used to full capacity or another reason is also because
there isn’t any affordable housing in non clustered settlements or jobs aren’t available in the country side.
For these reasons many poor people live in clustered settlements. Clustered settlements can be temporary
(example: Earthquake destroyed all the homes and now people live in clustered settlements until their
houses are rebuilt) but it can also be longstanding (Ex. People are born into slums and since they have no
education they cannot leave to build a better life so they begin a family in the slum, this cycle continues).

3. Scattered Settlement
• A scattered settlements are dwelling that spaced far apart from each other (the total
opposite of a clustered settlement) and don’t follow a settlement pattern. These settlements
are often used for farming (a house for the farmer to live in, a barn for the animals and the
rest of the land is used for crops) because of the need for an immense amount of land. They
can also happen because the area is hard to settle in or has a lack of jobs or (in a case of a
beautiful area) the houses are not affordable for the non-wealthy.

4. Population Density
• Population density is the measure of population in an area. Usually human population
density is expressed as a number per square km or square mile. This could be used to prove
a settlement pattern (Ex. because there is 5 people per square mile in the Swiss Alps people
therefore people avoid mountainous areas) and to find out if an area is overpopulated (ex.
There are 7000 lambs per square km) so that action may be set in place to improve
overcrowding ex. building more towns.

5. Overpopulation
• When there is too many people or other living things in an area that because of the
population that it causes an environmental crash (lots of people equal in a lot of garbage,
cow feces contain methane gas which is toxic and is extremely dangerous resulting in death
when there is a lot of it), an impaired quality of life (there is not enough jobs for everyone to
be able to feed their family) or population crash (such as when there is so many rabbits
creating more rabbits there is not enough lettuce to go around so a lot of the rabbits die).
This usually happens in clustered settlements due to the immense amount of people living in
that one area and the area has reached over capacity.

6. Population Distribution
Population distribution is the pattern of the spread of population throughout an area and
how the population is distributed (examples: children ages 4-12 go to elementary school
because of the curriculum). This is used to create balance (ex. 4 year olds cannot be in the
same class as high school kids because their curriculum is different and it is too hard for the
teacher to go from an extremely easy curriculum to a very different and much harder one in
a very short period of time. But overall human distribution is very poorly spread out; some
people live in very crowded areas where it is hard to find resources and other places where
there is a lot of land there isn’t a lot of people occupying that space.

7. Linear settlement
• Linear settlement is a group of dwellings arranged in a long line. They are created because
other patterns of living are not suitable for the area of residence (coastlines, mountains, hills
etc) and just for the convenience of living (like being close to the highway; the south service
road on the way to school is lined with homes). For those reasons linear settlements usually
don’t have a great population of population density