14 Quiz Questions on South Africa Nature Reserves

Which of these are you not able to find in a South African nature reserve ?

 ancient rock art
 geologic formations
 historic battlefields
 Mau Mau artifacts

Where can you visit Aukoerebis (place of great noise as refered to as by the Khoi San people), the powerful flow of water gushing out from the Orange River Gorge ?

 Kruger Park
 Augrabies National Park
 Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
 Pilanesberg Game Reserve

Which of the following Game reserves is not in South Africa ?

 Karoo National Park
 Amboseli Game Reserve
 Rhino & Lion Reserve
 Mokala National Park

Since 1948 South Africa and Botswana have co-operated in the management of two adjacent Kalahari parks. In 1999 the first cross-border collaboration of its kind united the two under the name [-galag--- ---------tier Park]

This large horse-like antelope is supremely adapted to the desert environment and can go for months without water as it reabsorbs its own waste fluids and barely sweats. Its temperature can rise far beyond that which would kill most animals, and to avoid boiling its brains, blood is first passed through the nostrils to cool it down.

 gemsbok (also called oryx)
 springbok
 eland
 wildebeest

Name the reserve in which visitors are able to view and photograph the rare Cape Vulture from a vulture hide ? [The ----- and Lion Nature Reserve]

It’s a unique and urban Western Cape Nature Reserve stretching from Signal Hill in the city to dramatic Cape Point, encompassing magnificent valleys, bays and beaches, the glorious Table Mountain and the legendary Cape of Good Hope. [T---- M------- N------- Park]

The Garden Route runs along the Western Cape coast from George to Port Elizabeth, and is so called because of its perpetual lushness. Its appeal is further enhanced by the ridge of folded mountains running along the coast, whose form and flow often resembles ocean waves. It has two Parks namely..............

 Table Mountain and Karoo
 Karoo National and Mokala National
 Knysna National Lake Area and Wilderness
 Mokala National and Kgalagadi Transfrontier

The [----------] Drakensberg Park which runs for hundreds of miles down the eastern border of Lesotho Drakensberg Mountains

Pilanesberg National Park, situated next door to the famous leisure and entertainment resort of Sun City, may not be very large but it habors the highest peak towering 1,950 feet (600 metres) above [------] Lake, which sits in the heart of the ancient volcano.

Its one of the worlds first wildlife conservation areas more than a century old. Today it is part of a single broad conservation area that spans private and public game parks and stretches across national borders into neighbouring Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

 Kruger Park
 Augrabies National Park Map
 Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
 Pilanesberg Game Reserve

South Africa is the only nation in the world with three capital cities. Cape Town, the largest of the three, is the legislative capital; [--------] is the administrative capital; and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital.

Studies show that males move faster than females except when travelling in groups. This is true of which animal ?

 Wildbeest
 Elephants
 Crocodiles
 Zebras

The largest verified impact crater on Earth is located in the Free State Province of South Africa and named after the town of Vredefort, which is situated near its centre. The crater is know as the [Vredefort ----]