South Africa From Above - Physical Map

Question 1

What are ‘Physical features’?

Answer 1

Things in the natural environment such as rivers and mountains

Question 2

What is a ‘Plateau’?

Answer 2

High, flat inland parts of the country

Question 3

What is the ‘Coast’?

Answer 3

Where the land and sea meet

Question 4

What is a ‘Coastal plain’?

Answer 4

Low lying land that is near to the sea

Question 5

What is a ‘Escarpment’?

Answer 5

A steep mountainous slope that divides a plateau and a lower area

Question 6

What does a physical map show?

Answer 6

Rivers, lakes, waterfalls, the height of the land above sea level, mountains and deserts

Question 7

What a peak?

Answer 7

The highest point of a mountain

Question 8

What symbol represents a peak on a map?

Answer 8

shaded triangle

Question 9

Describe a desert

Answer 9

Sandy, dry and very hot during the day

Question 10

Which is the biggest desert in the world?

Answer 10

Sahara Desert

Question 11

Which desert has the highest sand dunes in the world?

Answer 11

Namib Desert

Question 12

How rivers flow?

Answer 12

From higher to lower land

Question 13

Where do most rivers end?

Where do other rivers end?

Answer 13

Sea

Low areas of land, forming swamps

Question 14

Which is the longest river on Earth?

Answer 14

Nile (6670 km = 5 x JHB to Cape Town)

Question 15

What is a lake?

Answer 15

A large area of fresh water with land all around it

Question 16

Which are the three largest lakes in Africa? Where are they?

Answer 16

Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi.

Low are in eastern Africa (Tanzania, Tanzania, Malawi)

Question 17

What is a waterfall?

Answer 17

A river or stream falling from a high place to a low place

Question 18

Name three famous waterfalls in Africa.

Answer 18

Victoria Falls (Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe)
Maletsunyane Falls (Lesotho - Mum and Dad abseiled down these)
Augrabies Falls (Orange River in SA)

Question 19

What is the difference between a political and physical map?

Answer 19

A political map shows countries and their borders.

A physical map shows features of the land.

Question 20

What is the tallest mountain peak in Africa?

Answer 20

Mount Kilimanjaro (in Tanzania)

Question 21

Which is the largest lake in Africa?

Answer 21

Lake Victoria

Question 22

What is the largest mountain range in Africa?

Answer 22

Atlas Mountains (North Africa - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia)

Question 23

What is the largest river in South Africa?

Answer 23

The Gariep Orange

Question 24

What is the largest mountain range in South Africa?

Answer 24

Thabana Ntlenyana (Drakensburg)

Question 25

What is the tallest mountain peak in South Africa?

Answer 25

Mafadi

Question 26

What waterfall is commonly known as the Mosi-Oa-Thunya?

Answer 26

Victoria Falls

Question 27

What is the height of a place above sea level called?

Answer 27

Altitude

Question 28

What happens to the altitude (relief) of the land in South Africa as you travel inland from the coast?

Answer 28

The land goes from coastal plain (0 - 500m altitude) Then we meet escarpment (land rises steeply and is mainly mountain ranges) The plateau - interior (inside) of the country - high (above 500m altitude), mostly flat

Question 29

Learn the map of physical features of SA and Africa

Answer 29

Have you learnt it (from workbook)?

Question 30

What is the 'Blyde River Canyon'?

Answer 30

Canyon was formed by river wearing away at rock for thousands of years In Northern Drakensberg Mountains In Mpumalanga

Question 31

What is 'Algoa Bay'?

Answer 31

A large bay near Port Elizabeth (Eastern Cape) Named by a Portuguese explorer. Means 'Bay of the Lagoon'

Question 32

What is 'Robben Island'?

Answer 32

Situated off the coast of Cape Town. | Was used as a prison for many years

Question 33

What are the 'Augrabies Falls'?

Answer 33

``` A 60m high waterfall on the Orange River Called Ankoerebis ('Place of Big Noises') by Khoikhoi. In the Northern Cape. ```

Question 34

What is 'Lake St. Lucia'?

Answer 34

A wetland area of coastal beaches, forests, swamps and inland lakes. In northern Kwa-Zulu Natal.

Question 35

What are the 'uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Mountains'?

Answer 35

``` Highest mountain range in South Africa. 'uKhahlamba' means 'wall of spears' 'Drakensberg' means 'Dragon Mountain' Part of the 'Great Escarpment' Forms border between Lesotho and both Eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal ```

Question 36

What is 'Vredefort Dome'?

Answer 36

Made when a large meteorite hit Earth over 2000 million years ago In North West and Free States

Question 37

What is the 'Golden Gate National Park'?

Answer 37

National Park in Free State close to the border with Lesotho. Rock formation famous for gold-coloured cliffs

Question 38

What are the 'Lebombo Mountains'?

Answer 38

Forms part of border between South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland