Physical Features and Human Activity

Question 1

What does a physical map show us?

Answer 1

Shows where natural things like oceans, high and low areas of land, deserts, mountains, rivers and lakes.

Question 2

How is the height of land measured?

Answer 2

In metres above sea level.

Question 3

What is the highest point of a mountain called?

Answer 3

A peak.

Question 4

How is a peak shown on a map?

Answer 4

A beacon symbol.

Question 5

What is the highest mountain in Africa?

Answer 5

Mount Kilamanjiro - 5895 metres at the highest peak.

Question 6

Name three tallest mountains in Africa:

Answer 6

Mount Kilamanjiro, Mount Kenya, Thaba Ntlenyana (highest in South Africa)

Question 7

What is a desert?

Answer 7

A place that is sandy, dry and very hote during the day.

Question 8

What is the biggest desert in the world?

Answer 8

The Sahara Desert

Question 9

How do rivers flow?

Answer 9

From high land to low land.

Question 10

Where do most rivers end?

Answer 10

In the sea.

Question 11

What is the longest river on earth?

Answer 11

The Nile River. It is 6670 kms.

Question 12

Name three other great rivers In Africa:

Answer 12

The Niger, Congo, Zemabezi River.

Question 13

What are the three largest lakes in Africa?

Answer 13

Lake Victoria, Lake Tananyika and Lake Malawi.

Question 14

What is a lake?

Answer 14

A large area of fresh water with land all around it.

Question 15

What is waterfall?

Answer 15

Is a river or stream falling from a high place to a low place.

Question 16

What is southern Africa’s famous waterfall?

Answer 16

Victoria Falls

Question 17

What is a relief?

Answer 17

Describes where land is higher and lower.

Question 18

What is altitude?

Answer 18

The heigh that a place is above sea level.

Question 19

What is a coastal plain?

Answer 19

Is a low area that is along the coast.

Question 20

What altitude is a coastal plain?

Answer 20

0 - 500 metres above sea level.

Question 21

What is a plateau?

Answer 21

A high, flat area inside the country.

Question 22

What is the altitude of a plateau?

Answer 22

Usually above 500 metres above sea level.

Question 23

What is an escarpment?

Answer 23

Where the land rises steeply betwene the coastal land and plataeau. It is mainly mountain ranges.

Question 24

What are the main physical features of South Africa

Answer 24

Mountains, Rivers, Oceans, Cities, Towns, Lakes, Bays, Coastline

Question 25

Name some natural features in South Africa?

Answer 25

Drakensburg, Angloa Bay, Lake St Lucia, Augrabies Falls, Blyde River Canyon, Robben Island, Vredofrort Dome

Question 26

Which way do rivers always flow?

Answer 26

Downward towards sea level.

Question 27

What is a river system?

Answer 27

Describes all different parts of the river system along its route.

Question 28

What makes up a river system:

Answer 28

Source, mouth, watershed, tribitery, lake.

Question 29

What is a source?

Answer 29

Where the river begins.

Question 30

What is the mouth of the river?

Answer 30

Where the river joins the sea.

Question 31

What is a watershed?

Answer 31

An area of high ground. Water flows down from the watershed to form a river.

Question 32

What is a Tributary?

Answer 32

When rivers flow over land and join other rivers.

Question 33

How can human activity hard the natural environement?

Answer 33

Building towns can ruin the natural habitiat, moden farming (adds chemicals to the soil), Roads and Railways (cuts through mountains and hills), Dams (change the flow of the river and flood the land), Transport (pollution), Electricuty Pylons/Phone Lines (can injur flying birds)

Question 34

What can dams provide?

Answer 34

Provide homes, factories and settlements with water.

Question 35

Can dams provide energy?

Answer 35

Yes. They can make electricity this is called hydropwer.

Question 36

What are the disadvantage of building dams?

Answer 36

Needs lots of space, take up land that could be used for farming, less water for people down the river, can flood villages if they break.

Question 37

What is weather?

Answer 37

It is what the atmopshere or air is like at a particular time.

Question 38

How can you measure changes in the weather?

Answer 38

Special instruments or tools, units of measure such as degrees celcius or millimetres

Question 39

What is temperature

Answer 39

It is how hot or cold the air is

Question 40

How do you record temperature?

Answer 40

In degrees celcius.

Question 41

What is the minimum temperatur?

Answer 41

The coldest point in the day.

Question 42

What is the maximum temperature?

Answer 42

The hottest point in the day.

Question 43

What is wind?

Answer 43

The air that is blowing across the lands surface.

Question 44

What instrument do you use to measure wind speed?

Answer 44

anemoeter.

Question 45

How is wind measured in?

Answer 45

kms per hour

Question 46

How do we measure wind direction?

Answer 46

With a wind sock or wind vane.

Question 47

What are the different types of cloud cover?

Answer 47

Cloudy, Partly Cloudy or Clear

Question 48

What is precipitation?

Answer 48

Water than falls to the ground. Rain, Snow, Hail.

Question 49

What is rain?

Answer 49

Water that falls in droplets.

Question 50

What is hail?

Answer 50

Water that falls as frozen droplets during a thunderstorm.

Question 51

What is snow?

Answer 51

Water falls as frozen ice.

Question 52

How do you measure rain falls?

Answer 52

With a rain gauge?

Question 53

What is rain fall masured in?

Answer 53

Millimetres.