Geography - Term 2

Question 1

What are the things that help you to recognise places?

Answer 1

Landmarks

Question 2

True or False: Landmarks can be Natural or human-made.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is the name of a photograph taken from above?

Answer 3

An aerial view photograph

Question 4

What is a map?

Answer 4

A map is a plan of an area looking from above.

Question 5

What is a need?

Answer 5

A need is something you cannot do without.

Question 6

List 3 needs that people have.

Answer 6

Water. Food. Healthcare. Energy. Shelter.

Question 7

What do resources and services do?

Answer 7

Resources and services give people what they need.

Question 8

Name the 3 different types of resources.

Answer 8

Natural resources, technological resources and people and their skills

Question 9

Give an example of a resource delivered by people

Answer 9

Doctors. Dentists. Engineers. Teachers,

Question 10

Give an example of a Natural resource.

Answer 10

Rain, sunlight, oil

Question 11

Give an example of a Technological resource

Answer 11

Computers. Cars.

Question 12

True or False: Services are provided by the Government.

Answer 12

False. Services are provided by the Government AND businesses.

Question 13

Name 4 different kinds of services.

Answer 13

Sanitation. Healthcare. Transport. Education. Retail. Recreation.

Question 14

Give an example of a natural landmark and a human-made landmark.

Answer 14

Natural - rivers, mountains, trees. Human-made - dams, buildings, statues, monuments.

Question 15

Is Table Mountain a natural or human-made landmark?

Answer 15

A natural landmark.

Question 16

Is The Castle of Good Hope a natural or human-made landmark?

Answer 16

A human-made landmark.

Question 17

Would you include street names and addresses when giving directions to someone.

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 18

What is another name of an aerial plan?

Answer 18

A bird’s eye view

Question 19

Why is a bird’s eye view called what it is?

Answer 19

Because it shows us the way birds see things when they fly in the air.

Question 20

Why is an aerial plan useful?

Answer 20

Because it allows us to see where things are. It shows us the position of things. On the ground, our view is blocked.

Question 21

What sort of things block our view when we are standing on the ground?

Answer 21

Trees. Walls. Buildings. Mountains.

Question 22

What is a symbol?

Answer 22

A symbol is a picture on a map that represents items in the real world.

Question 23

Give 3 examples of real-world items that may be represented as a symbol on a map.

Answer 23

Trees, sports fields, buildings, toilets, parking areas, boundary walls.

Question 24

What is a Key on a map?

Answer 24

A key is used on a map to group all the symbols together so that it is easy to find the symbols and know what they mean.

Question 25

What do we call the thing that is used on a map to group all the symbols together so that it is easy to find the symbols and know what they mean.

Answer 25

A key.

Question 26

A __________ is a picture on a map that represents items in the real world.

Answer 26

Symbol