Physical features of SA

Question 1

What is South Africa’s highest mountain range?

Answer 1

uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Mountains

Question 2

What is the meaning of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Mountaints?

Answer 2

Fence of Spears and Drakensberg means “dragon”

Question 3

What is the large bay near PE (Port Elizabeth) called, it was named by a Portuguese explorer meaning Bay of the Lagoon

Answer 3

Algoa Bay

Question 4

Name a wetland of beaches,forests, swamps and lakes, Famous for birds, hippopotami and other wildlife?

Answer 4

Lake St Lucia

Question 5

Name the waterfall, 60 m high near Upington in the Northen Cape

Answer 5

Augrabies Falls

Question 6

Augrabies Waterfall was originally called Ankoerebis, what did it mean?

Answer 6

Place of big noise by the Khoikhoi

Question 7

Name an island off the coast of Cape Town that was used as a prison?

Answer 7

Robben Island

Question 8

Name the worlds oldest and largest meteorite impact site, formed 2000 million years ago in the Free State

Answer 8

Vredefort Dome

Question 9

Formed by a river weaving through rocks for thousands of years. Located near the border between Limpopo and Mpumalanga

Answer 9

Blyde River Canyon

Question 10

Forms the border between SA and Mozambique and Swaziland

Answer 10

Lebombo Mountaints

Question 11

Rock formations famous for its golden colour. On the border of Free State and Lesotho.

Answer 11

Golden Gate National Park.