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Grade 12 Rural and Urban Settlements

Geography practice questions and a worked example

Grade 12 Geography rural and urban settlement questions come from the settlements section of the NSC Paper 2. They cover settlement hierarchy and function, rural depopulation and urban-rural migration, urban profiles and informal settlements. Each question draws on a graph, sketch or extract, so practise reading the figure before answering.

Worked example

Refer to the extract in the figure. Name TWO social services in the extract that are lacking in the Alfred Nzo District.

Answer

Any TWO: healthcare; education; water.

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Rural and Urban Settlements

Question 1 of 3

Choose the term/concept from COLUMN B that matches the statement in COLUMN A. Write only Y or Z for each item (1.1.1 to 1.1.7). 1.1.1 The function of a rural settlement: Y multifunctional / Z unifunctional. 1.1.2 The site of a settlement: Y the exact land occupied by a settlement / Z the location of a settlement in relation to its surroundings. 1.1.3 Purpose of land reform in South Africa: Y increases access to water / Z decreases poverty. 1.1.4 Ensures communal land rights of farm workers: Y land tenure / Z land redistribution. 1.1.5 Government allocates land to previously disadvantaged people: Y land restitution / Z land redistribution. 1.1.6 Challenge associated with land reform: Y willing buyer/seller clause / Z more commercial farmers. 1.1.7 The result of well-managed land reform: Y equal access to land / Z unequal access to land.

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    … refers to the minimum number of customers needed to make a business profitable.
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    The area from which a settlement draws its customers is its …

Common mistakes

  • Using the words rural and urban interchangeably instead of naming the settlement type.
  • Describing what a graph shows without comparing the two lines it contains.

Aligned to CAPS Grade 12 Geography — Rural and Urban Settlements. Curriculum source: CAPS for the FET Phase, Department of Basic Education.