Which statement does not describe settlement patterns? are influenced by the availability of resources are rarely politically or economically influenced influence how land is used provide information about the people who live in an area

Settlement patterns are spatial distribution of evidence such as features, sites of human use and settlements on landscape.
they are patterns in which settlements are laid out in the landscape such as nucleated, clustered, wayside, dispersed, scattered, and unsettled landscape that lack human habitation

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The median is 4 because 2 x’s out 9, 3 x’s out 7, 3 x’s out 5, and 4 is the only remaining number.

The three sociological perspectives include the beginner’s mind, culture shock, and the sociological imagination