Q. What factors contribute to high population density in a region?
Physical factors that affect population density include water supply, climate, relief (shape of the land), vegetation, soils and availability of natural resources and energy. Human factors that affect population density include social, political and economic factors.
Q. Where is the highest population density in Canada?
Quebec City
Q. What factors have influenced settlement patterns in Canada?
Settlement patterns describe the ways in which villages, towns, cities and First Nation reserves are distributed, as well as the factors that influence this arrangement. Throughout Canadian history, climate, natural resources, transportation methods and government policy have affected human settlement in the country.
Q. What are the six settlement factors?
Physical Features Body of water (transportation routes, water for drinking and farming) Flat land (easy to build) Fertile soil (for crops) Forests (timber and housing)
Q. What is the biggest factor in the determination of the site choice for human settlement?
Several factors closely associated with the best location for the settlement area such as distance from built up area, topographic (slope), distance from river, soil (bearing capacity), distance from road, and land use activities.
Q. Which factor affect the human settlement?
Some of the factors that have positive influence on developing a human settlement are water supply, flat and arable land, protection, shelter from weather, bridging point, crossroad – intersection of roads, while land that floods, marshy or steep land, no protection, no building or water supply, may be considered to be …
Q. What was the most important environmental factor in early human settlement?
water
Q. How did water affect people’s choices of where to settle?
How did water affect people’s choices of where to settle? People needed fresh drinking water to live. People bathed and washed things in fresh water. People could fish and hunt animals that gathered near water.
Q. What did the settlers want?
The people who settled there left England for reasons different from those who settled in Jamestown. The Virginia settlers were looking for ways to earn money for English businesses. The settlers in Massachusetts were seeking religious freedom.
Q. Why were the settlers dying of starvation?
“The starving time” was the winter of 1609-1610, when food shortages, fractured leadership, and a siege by Powhatan Indian warriors killed two of every three colonists at James Fort. From its beginning, the colony struggled to maintaining a food supply.
Q. What helped the Jamestown settlers to get rich?
In 1612, John Rolfe, one of many shipwrecked on Bermuda, helped turn the settlement into a profitable venture. He introduced a new strain of tobacco from seeds he brought from elsewhere. Tobacco became the long awaited cash crop for the Virginia Company, who wanted to make money off their investment in Jamestown.
Q. What caused the survivors of the Starving Time at Jamestown to abandon their plans?
What caused the survivors of the “starving time” at Jamestown to abandon their plans to return to England? Supply ships arrived as they were departing. John Rolfe discovered tobacco cultivation.
Q. Who saved Jamestown from starvation?
John Smith
Q. What caused the failure of the Jamestown colony in 1610?
It was built near the coast of Virginia to allow for easy trade, access to food, and defense. However in 1609-1610 the colony failed and over 400 settlers died. The colony of Jamestown failed because of disease and famine, the location of the colony, and the laziness of the settlers.
Q. Why was Jamestown a poor location for a settlement?
Ecologically, Jamestown was a terrible place to start a colony. Yet by settling there the first colonists were largely doing what they were told. Like most things that lay unclaimed, however, Jamestown was free for a reason. It was marshy, infested with mosquitos, and without reliable water.
