A ________, seen in the contemporary North American rural landscape, is characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors, rather than alongside other farmers in settlements

A) clustered rural settlement
B) dispersed rural settlement
C) clustered linear rural settlement
D) clustered circular rural settlement
E) main street settlement


Answer: B) dispersed rural settlement

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