# Geography Grade 8 Sept 2016 Memo

> Grade 8 Geography memorandum from the Sept 2016, 3 pages. Read online or get the free PDF download, question paper linked when available.

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- Subject: Geography
- Grade: Grade 8
- Document type: Memorandum
- Year: 2016
- Exam period: Sept
- Curriculum: CAPS
- Pages: 3

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Geography · Grade 8 · Sept · 2016. Memorandum, 3 pages. Read online or download the PDF.

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GRADE 8                        GEOGRAPHY TEST MEMO                                              August 2016

TIME: 45 MINUTES                                                                                    50 MARKS

1.     State whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE. Only write down the question number
       and the answer.
1.1.   F                                                                                                    (1)
1.2.   F                                                                                                    (1)
1.3.   T                                                                                                    (1)
1.4.   T                                                                                                    (1)
1.5.   F                                                                                                    (1)
                                                                                                            (5)
2.     Latitude or distance from equator

       Mountains or relief

       Ocean currents

       Altitude

       Distance from the sea                                                                          (1x5=5)

3.     Water is transparent so rays penetrate deeper (bigger area to heat) while only the top surface of
       land warms up.
       Water moves & distributes heat (waves and currents)
       Evaporation from water surface (uses energy) so cools the water down
       Water reflects much of the sun's energy (albedo)
       Land masses only need ½ as much eat to raise the temperature by 1°C as the same mass of water.

       ANY 3                                                                                         (3x2 = 6)

4.1.   The sun heats the earth’s surface in the form of short wave radiation called insolation. The earth
       then heats the atmosphere in the form of long wave radiation called terrestrial radiation.     (6x1=6)

4.2.   1140m – 40m = 1100, 1100/100=11, 11 x 0.65˚C = 7.15 ˚C, 20 – 7.15 ˚C = 12.85 ˚C                      (4)

                                                                                                         (10)

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                                   5.1.   Table 1 = Bloemfontein          Table 2 = Durban?    (1)

                                   5.2.   There is a smaller difference in the max and minimum temperatures of Durban as it is at the coast
                                          (Durban has a smaller temperature range). Vice versa for Bloemfontein because it is far from the
                                          coast (Any of the two)                                                                            (2)

                                   5.3.   25 ˚C (24.9 ˚C)                                                                                   (2)

                                   5.4.   September, 20 ˚C                                                                           (1+2=3)

                                   5.5.   Nov, 6 ˚C                                                                                  (1+2=3)

                                   5.6.   Mozambican                                                                                        (1)

                                   5.7.   South, warm                                                                                (1+1=2)

                                   5.8.   A high rainfall or increases rainfall                                                      (2x1=2)

                                   5.9.   Summer                                                                                            (1)

                                                                                                                                         (17)

                                   6.     1.      Warm moist air

                                          2.      air rises and cools down.

                                          3.      Windward side

                                          4.      Clouds form

                                          5.      Leeward side or rain shadow

                                          6.      Rain shadow (dry conditions) or leeward side

                                          7.      Orographic rainfall or relief rainfall                                          (7x1=7)

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