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    TEMPLETON - HIGH SCHOOL

    ASSESSMENT COVERPAGE

    Subject: Social Sciences – Geography Paper 1


    Grade: 8

    TERM 4 2024
    Allowed Time: 1 ½ Hours
    Total Marks: 40
    Teacher: Mr. S. Nkotobe

    Signature: ……………………………

    Moderator: Mr. N. Bennett

    Signature: ……………………………
    QUESTION 1

    Choose the correct geographical term from the box and match it with the correct
    statement below. Write down only the question number and matching letter, e.g.
    1.1 D

    A. Urbanization B. Primary C. CBD


    Activities
    D. Settlement E. Group Areas F. Rural
    Act settlement
    G. Subsistence H. Nucleated I. Monoculture
    agriculture rural
    settlement
    J. Urban K. Light
    settlement industrial
    areas

    1.1 Places where people live.


    1.2 Small places where people live in the countryside.
    1.3 Large, built-up places like towns and cities.
    1.4 Main business areas in a large city.
    1.5 Agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining
    1.6 Clustered group of homesteads in the rural countryside.
    1.7 Farming to meet the needs of one’s family.
    1.8 Growing only one crop.
    1.9 An increase in the proportion of a country’s population living in urban
    settlements.
    1.10 Apartheid laws separating where people were allowed to live.

    [10]
    QUESTION 2

    The table below shows urban population as a proportion of total population for a
    selection of African countries. Use the table to answer the questions that follow:
    COUNTRY 1990: Percentage of 2012:
    population Percentage
    urbanized. population
    urbanized

    Mozambique 21 % 38 %
    Nigeria 35 % 50 %
    South Africa 52 % 62 %
    Uganda 11 % 13 %
    Zimbabwe 29 % 38

    2.1 Define “urbanization”. (2)


    2.2 Why are most African cities growing at a rapid rate? (2)
    2.3 Which country was the most rural in 2012? (2)
    2.4 Which country was the most urbanized in 2012? (2)
    2.5 Which country has experienced the greatest urbanization for the
    period 1990 – 2012? (2)
    2.6 Name two problems brought about by increased population both
    on rural and urban areas? (4)
    [14]
    QUESTION 3
    Choose the correct word from those in brackets to make the statement true.

    3.1. (Isolated/Nucleated) settlement is the grouping of a few settlements close


    to one another.
    3.2. (Urbanisation/Rural-urban migration) is the increase in the proportion (%)
    of the total population living in urban settlements.
    3.3. (Primary/Secondary) activities involve the extraction of raw materials.
    3.4. (Natural disasters/Better educational opportunities) are considered a pull
    factor causing people to move to cities.
    [4]
    QUESTION 4

    4. 1. List two push and two pull factors that cause rural depopulation. (4)
    4. 2. Name three characteristics of subsistence farming. (6)
    4. 3. Many people migrate to cities as they are thought to offer more
    opportunities than the rural areas do. What are two realities of life
    in urban areas? (2)
    [12]
    GRAND TOTAL 40 MARKS

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