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About this types of settlement and land use practice

Types of settlement and land use is taught in KS2 Year 4 (ages 8-9) as part of the England national curriculum. This free practice set covers how places are sorted by size (hamlet, village, town, city) and how land is used through 30 interactive questions, working up from easy warm-ups to harder problems.

What you'll practise

Each session gives you 30 questions in mixed difficulty: a few simple ones to start, some two-step questions next, then word problems at the end. If you get stuck, tap for a hint. After every answer you get a short explanation, right or wrong, so you can see why.

Question types in this set: multiple choice, drag-to-order, true or false, fill the blank, word matching.

Example question

Which is the smallest type of settlement?

Curriculum coverage

This is on the KS2 Geography programme of study for Year 4. The questions follow the same order schools use, starting with concrete examples and moving on to more abstract reasoning, so practice here lines up with what your child is doing in lessons. British English throughout, with British units, currency and spelling.

Frequently asked questions

What is types of settlement and land use in KS2 geography?
How places are sorted by size (hamlet, village, town, city) and how land is used. It is on the KS2 geography curriculum for Year 4 and gets revisited in later years too.
What year group is types of settlement and land use taught in?
Types of settlement and land use is first introduced in Year 4. Children usually meet it again in later years as the work gets harder.
Is the types of settlement and land use practice really free?
Yes. All 30 questions are free, with no signup, no payment and no time limit. Your progress is saved in your browser.
How does the practice work?
Each session gives you 10 questions of mixed difficulty. Correct answers add 8 to 12 points to your SmartScore; wrong answers take some off. Get to 80 to mark the concept as complete. Hints are there if you need them, and every answer comes with a short explanation.

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Practice content matched to the England national curriculum for KS2 (Year 4). Questions use British English throughout.

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