Transport through history (Revision: Grade 4 work)
Revision: transport from feet and sleds to trains, cars and aeroplanes, and trade routes. Read one part at a time and tap “I know this”. Then test yourself in the quiz.
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Transport and society
- Better transport helped kingdoms grow: goods and people could move far.
- Railways changed many South African families: men went far away to work. Rock paintings of ships and trains show artists recorded new things.
- Not everyone saw new transport the same way: it helped some and hurt others.
Today
Transport “shrank the world”: long trips became short. But more cars bring traffic jams and accidents, and vehicles burn fossil fuels that add to global warming. Walking or cycling pollutes least; one bus carries many people. The last big change was air travel.
Remember this and test yourself
- The oldest transport is walking; a sled is a frame dragged along the ground.
- The wheel (with an axle joining the wheels) let carts carry heavy loads.
- Dug-out canoes and reed boats on rivers; sailing ships carried heavy goods far.
- The steam engine: trains without wind or animals. Aeroplanes: weeks at sea became hours.
- A trade route is a path traders used: gold, ivory, copper and salt before 1600.
Write these points in your book. Read them again the night before the test.
From drag to fly: sled, wheel, sail, steam, petrol, plane.
Important words
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Match column A to column B
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True or false?
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