NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -An urban area is the region surrounding a city. Most inhabitants of urban areas have nonagricultural jobs. Urban areas are very developed, meaning there is a density of human structures such as houses, commercial buildings, roads, bridges, and railways.

Detailed explanation-2: -(a) Linear pattern: In such settlements houses are located along a road, railway line, river, canal edge of a valley or along a levee. (b) Rectangular pattern: Such patterns of rural settlements are found in plain areas or wide inter montane valleys. The roads are rectangular and cut each other at right angles.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rural settlements in India can broadly be put into four types: • Clustered, agglomerated or nucleated, • Semi-clustered or fragmented, • Hamleted, and • Dispersed or isolated.

Detailed explanation-4: -A colony is a group of people who inhabit a foreign territory but maintain ties to their parent country.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are various types of settlements for eg; Scattered settlements, Nucleated settlements and Linear settlements. In scattered settlements, houses are few and far from each other.