Match List-I with List-II
| List-I (Characteristics) | List-II (Type of Settlement) | ||
| (A) | Closely built-up area with some pattern of streets | (I) | Clustered Settlement |
| (B) | Develops due to segregation of large compact village | (II) | Semi-Clustered Settlement |
| (C) | Develops over fragmented nature of terrain | (III) | Hamleted Settlement |
| (D) | Settlements fragmented into several units but bearing same name | (IV) | Dispersed Settlement |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
(A) Closely built-up area with some pattern of streets — this matches (I) Clustered Settlement. The houses are packed together, and the streets form a pattern such as rectangular, radial or linear.
(B) Develops due to segregation of large compact village — this matches (II) Semi-Clustered Settlement. One or more sections of the village live a little away from the main cluster.
(C) Develops over fragmented nature of terrain — this matches (IV) Dispersed Settlement. On broken hilly land, people live in isolated huts or small groups of huts.
(D) Settlements fragmented into several units but bearing same name — this matches (III) Hamleted Settlement. The units are locally called panna, para, palli, nagla or dhani.
NCERT (2026-27): “Clustered Settlements … The clustered rural settlement is a compact or closely built up area of houses. In this type of village the general living area is distinct and separated from the surrounding farms, barns and pastures. The closely built-up area and its intervening streets present some recognisable pattern or geometric shape, such as rectangular, radial, linear, etc.” “Semi-Clustered Settlements … Semi-clustered or fragmented settlements may result from tendency of clustering in a restricted area of dispersed settlement. More often such a pattern may also result from segregation or fragmentation of a large compact village.” “Hamleted Settlements … Sometimes settlement is fragmented into several units physically separated from each other bearing a common name.” “Dispersed Settlements … Dispersed or isolated settlement pattern in India appears in the form of isolated huts or hamlets of few huts in remote jungles, or on small hills with farms or pasture on the slopes. Extreme dispersion of settlement is often caused by extremely fragmented nature of the terrain and land resource base of habitable areas.” |