Goegraphy

Question 1

What is a source of a river?

Answer 1

This is where the river begins.It usually begins high up (mountains)

Question 2

What is an upper course?

Answer 2

A young river flows quickly.The energy builds and causes the fast flowing river to create waterfalls where the water flows.

Question 3

What is the middle course?

Answer 3

The river gets wider and slows down.

Question 4

What is a meander?

Answer 4

This is a winding or curving bend in a river?

Question 5

What is a mouth of the river?

Answer 5

It is were the river opens into a large body of water like a lake or the ocean.

Question 6

What is a lower course of a river?

Answer 6

it is usually slower and wider because all of the tributaries have joined up.

Question 7

What is a tributary?

Answer 7

it is a smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river.

Question 8

distributary

Answer 8

it is a stream that branches off and flows out of a larger river.

Question 9

some uses of water are..

Answer 9

drinking
farming
recreation
transport
hygiene
energy

Question 10

river pollution:
what are some ways we as humans pollute rivers?

Answer 10

oil
litter
chemicals
human waste

Question 11

coastal plain (what is it?)

Answer 11

it is an area of flat land, lying close to the coast and not very high above sea level.

Question 12

plateau (what is it?)

Answer 12

it is an area of fairly level high ground.

Question 13

escarpment (what is it?)

Answer 13

it is a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau.

Question 14

give 3 examples of physical features/landforms in S.A

Answer 14

Table mountain, Drakensberg mountains and grasslands

Question 15

draw a compass

Answer 15

it should have all of these:
N,NNE,NE,ENE,SE,E,SSE,S,SSW,SW,WSW,W,NNW,
NW,WNW

Question 16

political maps (what are they?)

Answer 16

they show state and national borders and capital and major cities.

Question 17

physical maps (what are they?)

Answer 17

they illustrate the physical features of an area, such as the mountains, rivers and lakes.

Question 18

what colour is the sea shown on a map?

Answer 18

blue

Question 19

what colour is the lowest land shown on a map?

Answer 19

green

Question 20

what colour is the highest land shown on a map?

Answer 20

white or purple

Question 21

what are the 7 continents?
(remember the song)

Answer 21

Asia, Africa, north and south America, Antartica and Europe and finally Australia

Question 22

the equator is in the

Answer 22

middle of the earth

Question 23

the equator
(what is it?)

Answer 23

an imaginary line dividing the earth into the southern and northern hemisphere

Question 24

tropic of cancer
(Were is it?)

Answer 24

it is just above the equator

Question 25

continent
(what is it?)

Answer 25

A large mass of land

Question 26

country
(what is it?)

Answer 26

An area of land controlled by its own goverment.

Question 27

province
(what is it?)

Answer 27

A smaller part of a country witch is run by a municipality.

Question 28

A city
(what is it?)

Answer 28

A smaller urban area were many people live.

Question 29

border
(what is it?)

Answer 29

An imaginary line dividing two countries or areas.

Question 30

what are the names of S.A’s provinces?

Answer 30

Limpopo
Western Cape
Northern Cape
Western Cape
North West
Free State
KwaZulu-Natal
Mpumalanga
Gauteng

Question 31

S.A’s Neighbours and their capital cities:
What is Mozambique’s capital city?

Answer 31

Maputo

Question 32

What is Zimbabwe’s capital city?

Answer 32

Harare

Question 33

What does Botswana’s capital city?

Answer 33

Gaborone

Question 34

What is the capital city of Namibia?

Answer 34

Windhoek

Question 35

Give me 5 examples of landlocked countries?

Answer 35

Chad
Niger
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Zambia

Question 36

Give me 5 examples of coastal countries

Answer 36

South Africa
Egypt
Congo
Mozambique
Namibia

Question 37

What are S.A’s neighbors?

Answer 37

Zimbabwe,Mozambique,Botswana,Namibia,Lesotho,Swaziland

Question 38

Capital city
(What is it?)

Answer 38

The most important or biggest City in a country or province.It is also we’re the government works.

Question 39

National capital cities
(What is it?)

Answer 39

Is we’re the government meets.

Question 40

Provincial capital cities
(What is it?)

Answer 40

Usually the biggest city in a province

Question 41

Why are capital cities important?

Answer 41

It is important because it is we’re a government works.

For example: Pretoria in Gauteng is one of the places we’re the government works.

Question 42

What is the capital city of Lesotho?

Answer 42

Maseru

Question 43

What is the capital city of Swaziland?

Answer 43

Mbabane