Question

The cave dwellings of the primitive people are examples of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _?
A. Permanent settlements
B. Temporary settlements
C. Rural settlements
D. Urban settlements

Answer 1

Hint: - People from such settlements are more nature reliant because they seek food, water or shelters from nature.
- In such settlements people practice hunting, gathering, shifting cultivation and transhumance and due to climatic change or changes in circumstances, people need to change their homes.

Complete Answer:
A. Permanent settlement: is a settlement where people live for a long time. People build their houses in one place permanently. From the life of nomads, people have now transformed their living to permanent settlements. Where they don't have to move from one place to another in search of food. In Such settlements, people practice manufacturing, trading and other services. These settlements can be rural where people grow their food by themselves or can be urban-like big cities where people mostly rely on economic activities. These settlements are modern.

B. Temporary settlements: are the type of settlement which is occupied by people for a short time. These settlements people don't have permanent houses, they use some natural shelters to live like caves etc Such settlements were more prevalent among primitive people. Cave dwelling is a type of temporary settlement where caves are used as temporary houses by the people. Examples of temporary settlements are deep forests, hot and cold deserts, mountains.

C. Rural settlements are the settlements where the occupation of the majority of people are related to natural resources such as the settlement of farmers near a bank of the river, settlement of tribal people in a forest, settlements near coastal areas. Nowadays rural settlement definitions vary from country to country, sometimes towns are also included in rural settlements. Cave dwelling is not a kind of rural settlement. Common types of rural settlements are villages, farms and hamlets.

D. Urban settlements are the high population area with huge infrastructures, this includes cities, towns etc. It's a result of urbanisation. Urban settlements have the availability of all consumer goods and services. Urban areas have large amounts of economic exchanges.

Thus the correct answer is option B.

Note: - In India rural population constitutes about 65.53% of the total population of the country according to the official data of 2019.
- World’s largest urban settlement in which even the limits of urbanisation is also crossed is the city of Tokyo.
- Mumbai, followed by Delhi is the largest urban settlement of India.