If cat and a half can catch a mouse and a half in a day and a half how many mice can 3 cats catch in 3

days? Six mice: if a cat and a half can catch a mouse and a half in a day and a half - this means that one cat catches one mouse in a day and a half.

Therefore in 3 days, one cat catches 2 mice. Therefore 3 cats will catch 6 mice in 3 days.

LO: We will look at factors affecting settlements

Settlement

• A settlement can range in size from a single farmstead to a vast mega-city.

• No matter what size, settlements have two features…

• Site: the ground on which the settlement stands, described by its physical characteristics

• Situation: the location of the settlement relative to its surroundings described by its features relative to other settlements e.g. rivers, transport lines etc.

• The decision to choose a specific area for a settlement is a careful decision.

• In prehistoric times people settled on upper slopes because here the vegetation was thinner and more easily cleared.

• Over time, as agriculture techniques improved, lowland areas were cleared of their vegetation and cultivated.

Types of settlement shapes

Nucleated: dwellings and buildings are packed closely together, e.g. at a crossroads or where routeways converge

Dispersed: individual dwellings are spread out, e.g. lowland where the land is fairly uniform in terms of soil and vegetation

Linear: dwellings and buildings are strung out along a road, river, valley or stretch of coastline

The South Wales valleys• The valleys of South

Wales are deep and run roughly parallel to each other.

• They rise in the Brecon Beacons and move in a south-easterly direction towards the Bristol Channel.

• This was an important area for cola mining.

The valleys• The coal and iron were

moved along the canals, railways and roads which ran along the valley floors.

• Because the valleys were so narrow, there was very little space in which the settlement could expand.

• Much of the miners’ housing were arranged in parallel housing up the valley sides.

Growth of the urban area

• The settlements grew and eventually joined each other to form ribbons of continuous urban development.