Across
- 2. What do you call a violently rotating column of air touching the ground, usually attached to the base of a thunderstorm?
- 4. What do you call the device that blows a strong blasts of air to help a fire burn?
- 8. What do you call the machine you use to make butter with?
- 9. What grain do you need to make cake flour with?
- 10. What did the old people us to make soap and candles with?
- 11. What invention changed the way people lit their homes during the 1920s?
- 14. What metal was discovered here in Roodepoort in 1884?
- 16. What public holiday do we celebrate on 24 September?
- 17. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
- 18. What is the name of the big city that developed after gold was discovered on the farm Langlaagte in 1886?
- 19. What colorless, oudorless, toxic and highly flammable gas can gold miners encounter when they work deep underground?
- 20. What is the surname of the man Mr. Louw Geldenhuys invited to come and look for gold on his farm?
- 22. What public holiday do we celebrate on 21 March?
- 23. What do you call the place where old things are kept, displayed and researched?
- 25. pyrite What is the proper name for “fools gold”?
Down
- 1. what do you call a person that search for gold
- 3. What was the name of Mr. Geldenhuys’s farm?
- 4. What do call the system whereby you exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using money?
- 5. What was the greater area known as, before the cities of Roodepoort and Johannesburg was established?
- 6. What is the proper name for “pudding stone” (the rock that contains gold)?
- 7. what do you call the scientist who studies the structure, composition and history of Earth?
- 12. What colourless, odourless, tasteless gas is essential to all living organisms?
- 13. What do you call an old-fashioned record player/turntable?
- 15. What mode of transport was used most often in the 1800s to transport goods?
- 21. What do you call a person who makes and repairs iron things by hand?
- 24. What did the old people use to make smooth and dust free mud floors?
