How has technology affected this region's settlement patterns? Cloud seeding has increased agricultural productivity. Improved water storage and delivery systems have increased areas where people can live. Mechanized agricultural methods have increased crop productivity. Globalization has increased urbanization. Petroleum reserves have caused population shifts from urban to rural areas.

Technology has definitely impacted the regional settlement patterns as can understood from below.

Explanation:

The continuous use of artificial technology has created various changes in the settlement patterns over the entire earth as the man-made clouds seeding is being used in present days as this technology is new and its use to divert the flow of rainfall from one place to another or to improve agricultural productivity has led to the creation of disequilibrium. Improvement in water storage methods and delivery systems have depleted the groundwater capacity also the increasing use of mechanical equipment and globalization of cropping patterns has to lead to the drastic change in the type of farming systems that are doing more harm to the soil and lands. Digging out the petroleum reserves and population shift from urban to rural areas has led to the major shifts in the rock strata as the population movement has influenced these resources and cause crowding and overpopulation to increase. Creating pressure over the core of the city and raising the heat levels.