TOM NEWBY SCHOOL TEST
Subject Geography Examiner Miss M Albertyn
Date November 2021 Total marks 25
Session Duration 1 hour
Grade 4 Moderator Miss M Botha
Special instructions/
Equipment
This Exam has been compiled using notes and information contained in the Tom Newby School book. The marking
memorandum has been compiled accordingly. While alternative responses will be given due acknowledgement, the official
memorandum will be considered a priority document to ensure uniformity of marking.
MEMO
SECTION A Food and farming in South Africa [10]
Question 1
Question Answer Mark Level
allocation
1.1 Bananas/ pawpaw 1 Low
1.2 Free-range chickens- chickens that run 2 Middle
around outside and find food on the ground
Battery chickens- chickens reared in a
place where chickens are kept in rows of
small cages
1.3 Sugar cane can only be grown in a hot / 1 Low
cold and dry/ wet climate.
1.4.1 Cattle 2÷2=1 Middle
Sheep
1.4.2 Western Cape / Eastern Cape 2÷2=1 Middle
1.5
Name of Plant or Processed or If processed, 8÷2=4 Low
food animal? unprocessed? how?
A. Peas Plant Processed Frozen
B. Pears Plant Processed Canned
C. Eggs Animal Unprocessed
SECTION B WATER [15]
Question 2
Question Answer Mark Level
allocation
2.1 Evaporates √ condense √ 2 Low
2.2 A B C D 4 Middle
4 3 2 5
2.3 Washing clothes / Throwing rubbish into the 3 Middle
river / Chemicals from the factory / Cattle poo
in the river / Weeing into the river / Soap
water from washing car (any 3)
2.4a The river water was not clean, many people 1 Middle
got sick
2.4b Leaking pipes/ blocked pipes/ no water at all 1 Middle
2.4c (any logical answer) e.g. Check pipes on a 2 High
regular basis / send water tankers/ respond
when the villagers put in a complaint
2.5 (any logical answer) e.g.They are very big 1 High
animals
2.6 (any logical answer) e.g. Run out of fresh 1 High
water / get sick / die / pay lots of money to
extract salt from sea water
