Geography Grade 5 Weather Part 2

Question 1

What is seasonal?

Answer 1

Changes with the seasons.

Question 2

Describe South Africa’s rainfall.

Answer 2

It is seasonal and very inconsistent. So it rains mainly only in summer OR only in winter.

Question 3

Which parts of SA receive rainfall throughout the year?

Answer 3

North East and South East coasts.

Question 4

What is inconsistent?

Answer 4

It is changeable.

Question 5

Which province receives rainfall in winter?

Answer 5

Western Cape.

Question 6

Which city gets winter rain?

Answer 6

Cape Town.

Question 7

Name a city that gets rain throughout the year.

Answer 7

Durban; East London; Port Elizabeth

Question 8

Name a city that gets summer rain.

Answer 8

Pretoria; Johannesburg; Kimberley; Bloemfontein

Question 9

Where do you find the very dry and arid regions?

Answer 9

Northern Cape.

Question 10

What is a climate graph?

Answer 10

A graph that gives detailed information about the climate of a place. It shows the average rainfall and the average temperature of a place.

Question 11

Describe SA’s climate.

Answer 11

Generally warm, temperate climate. SA has 7 climatic regions.

Question 12

What is temperate?

Answer 12

Moderate, mild, not going to extremes.

Question 13

What are the 7 climatic regions?

Answer 13

1. Mediterranean region
2. Desert
3. Semi-arid plateau
4. Temperate coast
5. Subtropical coast
   Subtropical lowveld
   Subtropical plateau
6. Plateau slopes
7. Temperate eastern plateau

Question 14

What is the difference between weather and climate?

Answer 14

The weather of a place over a SHORT period of time (from day-to day). The weather changes all the time.

Climate is the weather of a place over a LONG period of time. Climate is studied over hundreds of years and forms patterns.

Question 15

What determines climate?

Answer 15

1. How hot or cold an area is
2. How much rain falls in an area
3. Which direction the wind usually blows
4. What the different seasons of the area are like

Question 16

What is natural vegetation?

Answer 16

Plants that grow naturally in an area. They are indigenous to the area.

Question 17

What are exotic plants?

Answer 17

Plants that people introduce from another area.

Question 18

Name three examples of trees that change according to SA’s seasons.

Answer 18

1. Deciduous trees
2. Fynbos
3. Coniferous trees

Question 19

How do deciduous trees change with the seasons?

Answer 19

The leaves change colour.
Summer = green
Autumn = yellow, red, brown
Winter = leaves fall off and are not actively growing. They look dead.
spring = new buds start to grow

Question 20

What does indigenous mean?

Answer 20

Natural vegetation of an area; plants that occur naturally in an area.

Question 21

How does fynbos change with the seasons?

Answer 21

To survive WC’s hot, dry summers, many fynbos flowers have bulbs instead of roots to store food and water. They have thick, waxy leaves to prevent water loss. E.g. Protea, Erica, Vygie.

Question 22

How do coniferous trees change with the seasons?

Answer 22

Their leaves are covered in a thick, waxy layer to prevent them from freezing. The shape of the tree and the needle-like leaves causes the snow to slide off easily.