AP Human Geography / Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
5.2 Settlement Patterns and Survey Methods
Notes
- Rural settlements: clustered, dispersed, linear.
- Survey systems: metes and bounds (natural features), township and range (grid, US Midwest), long lot (narrow strips from rivers, Quebec and Louisiana).
Practice
Long, narrow farms stretching back from a river show the:
French influence.
The square grid of the US Midwest comes from:
Land Ordinance.
Houses spread far apart on individual farms are:
Scattered.
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