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3. Copy the table below. Put the following jobs or tasks in the correct
column: doctor, tractor driver, waiter, pick mealies, fix computers,
keep goats. (6)
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Hay Road
Main Street
Elias’s
house
church
Long Street
Themba’s
house
10. Make a list of the five things people need to stay alive. (5)
(40 marks)
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City
Village
3. Some buildings are found only in big cities. Some are found in
villages too. Which of these buildings can be found in both a village
and a city: airport, school, shop, large factory, house, flats, clinic,
offices? (4)
4. Look at the list of buildings below. Put each building in the correct
column in the table. Buildings: bank, cow shed, hairdresser, tractor
shed, shopping mall, animal feed storage room. (6)
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hospital
tree
Nhlanhla’s
house
First Avenue
Second Avenue
church
shop
park
library
(50 marks)
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8. Look at the grid. Say what you will find in the following blocks:
a. C5 b. B3 c. D5 (3)
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10. Write Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Northern Cape and Free State in the
correct place on the map. Colour each province a different colour.
Label the two oceans. Colour the oceans in blue. (6)
11. Label the following continents and colour each one a different
colour: Africa, South America and Asia. (3)
12. Label the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. (2)
(40 marks)
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OAD N farmhouse
END R
W E vegetable garden
A
D
OA
S mealie field
LR
farm boundary
SCHOO
shop
ISAKABULA ROAD
B
R
IV school
MAIN
RO E
AD R church
C house
MAIN ROAD
trees
picnic spot
D post office
petrol station
(40 marks)
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Tropical fruit
Deciduous fruit
Citrus fruit
(6)
5. a. Name four products we get from ostriches. (4)
b. Name two types of meat we get from sheep. (2)
c. What product do we get from pigs other than meat? (1)
6. Use the map on the next page to complete the table.
Two types of livestock A type of fruit that A crop that is
Province
farmed here is grown here grown here
Western Cape
Limpopo
KwaZulu-Natal
(12)
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a. What foods can the people get from their livestock? (3)
b. Say what type of farming is shown in each photograph. (3)
3. Write down two ways that commercial farming differs from
subsistence farming. (2)
4. Look at the photographs below.
a. Name the crop in each photograph and give a province in which
it is grown. (6)
b. Why do you think these crops grow in these provinces? (1)
1 2 3
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7. Look at the photographs below. For each processed food say what
crop it comes from. (3)
1 2 3
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8. Put these sentences in the right order to show how rain water gets to a tap.
A water treatment centre cleans the dam water to make it safe to drink.
These pipes go to places where people live.
The clean water is stored in a water reservoir.
The rain water collects in a dam.
These pipes connect to taps. When we turn on the tap we can get water.
Special pumps push the water from the reservoirs through pipes. (6)
9. Fill in words to complete the mind map showing how water is polluted.
___________
Toilet waste
from cleaning
containing harmful
substances used
__________.
in homes.
Water pollution
Farmers use ______ Rain washes
and __________ to spray _______ in the air into the
crops. This reaches rivers soil, rivers and dams.
and dams.
__________ water
from factories flows into
rivers and dams.
(6)
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(40 marks)
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6. Write down the ways that people in South Africa get water. Write
this from the most used way to the least used way. (5)
7. Draw a simple mind map to show these five ways of getting water. (5)
8. What are the two ways that people use to get underground water? (2)
9. Think of three ways that water can be polluted other than the ways
given in your textbook. (3)
10. Draw a simple flowchart to show how dirty water from settlements
is recycled. You must have four boxes in your flowchart. Make sure
they are in the correct order. (4)
(40 marks)
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Column A Column B
a. objects 1. talking to someone and asking questions to find out
information
b. interview 2. to put on show for people to see
c. labels 3. to study and to try to understand something
d. investigate 4. things that are put in museums so that people can learn
from them
e. display 5. written descriptions of things in museums to help
people understand
(5)
2. List four ways in which you can find out information about your
local area. (4)
3. Write down what you would use from each of the four ways if you
were finding out about your local area. (4)
4. What is a museum? (2)
5. Give one example of an object that you would expect to find in
each of the following museums:
a. transport museum (1)
b. natural history museum (1)
6. Write a good label for each of the items that you have written down
for the:
a. transport museum (1)
b. natural history museum (1)
7. Why are museums important? (1)
(20 marks)
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(40 marks)
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1. State the power source for each of the following types of transport.
a. bicycle b. canoe c. cart
d. tram e. hot air balloon f. dhow
g. modern aeroplane h. clipper i. Rocket
j. modern motor car (10)
2 Write down one important thing that changed because of the
invention of the following things:
a. wheel b. steam engine c. locomotive
d. motor car e. steam ship f. aeroplane (6)
3. Which of the inventions listed above are the two most important in
the history of transport? Give reasons for your answer. (2 × 3 = 6)
4. Rank the following methods of transport from the best to the worst
for the environment.
a. petrol-driven motor car
b. horse-powered cart
c. bicycle
d. container ship
e. sailing vessel (5)
5. List five transport-related things that a big city can do to improve
the quality of its air. (5)
1 2 3
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1 2 3 4 5 6 KEY
D N farmhouse
EN D R OA
W E vegetable garden
A
D
OA
S mealie field
LR
farm boundary
SCHOO
shop
ISAKABULA ROAD
B
R
IV school
MAIN
RO E
AD R church
C house
MAIN ROAD
OAD
EK R trees
IEHO
DR picnic spot
D post office
petrol station
1 2 3 4 5 6 KEY
AD N farmhouse
END RO
W E vegetable garden
A
D
OA
S mealie field
LR
farm boundary
SCHOO
shop
ISAKABULA ROAD
B
R
IV school
MAIN
RO E
AD R church
C house
MAIN ROAD
ROAD
OEK trees
RIEH
D
picnic spot
D post office
petrol station
5. a. True
b. False
c. False
d. True
e. False (10)
6. a. The Earth is round.
b. Europe is to the west of Asia.
c. The smallest continent is Australasia.
d. The Atlantic Ocean lies between Africa and South America.
e. The continent that lies the furthest south is Antarctica. (10)
(40 marks)
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(6)
10. Sewage is dirty water that comes from settlements. It goes through pipes to the sewage
treatment works. Here it passes through layers of sand called filters. These trap the tiny
pieces of solid material. (4)
(40 marks)
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How people
get water
borehole public tap
river
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(40 marks)
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