JAMB - Geography (1981)

  • 1
    What is the most important reason for moving the Federal Capital of Nigeria to Abuja?
    إجابة
    (A)
    The area has a central location
  • 2
    For what specific purpose is the Shiroro Dam on the river Kaduna being constructed?
    إجابة
    (D)
    Generating electricity
  • 3
    Landforms vary in Africa but there are no examples of?
    إجابة
    (B)
    drumlins
  • 4
    Where does heavy precipitation tend to occur in the world?
    إجابة
    (C)
    where temperature are high and winds blow off shore
  • 5
    Which of the following is a feature of a rejuvenated drainage system?
    إجابة
    (C)
    Incised meaners
  • 6
    Which of the following rock types is non-sedimentary?
    إجابة
    (A)
    Basalt
  • 7
    Plants takes up mineral nutrients in solution from the soil. Some of these are required in large quantities while others are needed in small quantities. Which of these is required in small quantities?
    إجابة
    (D)
    Sulphur
  • 8
    Two factors which together cause the varying length of day and night are?
    إجابة
    (D)
    inclination of the earth on its axis and the revolution of the moon round the earth
  • 9
    When one looks at a soil profile, the first characteristic to be notice is soil?
    إجابة
    (A)
    colour
  • 10
    Which of these statements is NOT true of the burning of savannah?
    إجابة
    (E)
    its makes the temperature of soil too high for the plants
  • 11
    Among West Africa countries, Togo is a leading exporter of?
    إجابة
    (D)
    Phosphates
  • 12
    Why is rainfall in northern Chile and along the coastal belt of southern Peru so low?
    إجابة
    (A)
    Because the coast is washed by a cool current
  • 13
    Rivers can erode their beds through the process of?
    إجابة
    (A)
    Abrasion
  • 14
    With which of the following processes are drumlins, boulder clay and terminal moraines associated?
    إجابة
    (D)
    Glacial depostion
  • 15
    Which of these groups of rocks consist of only sedimentary rocks and are used in the manufacture of cement?
    إجابة
    (C)
    Coal, Limestone, gypsum
  • 16
    Which of these major soil groups is considered the most productive?
    إجابة
    (C)
    Chernozems
  • 17
    The result of a football match completed at 6.00 p.m in Accra (Ghana) and head at 12.00 noon that same day at another city. The longitude of that city is?
    إجابة
    (C)
    750E
  • 18
    Which climate type is characterized by (i) very high temperature (over 330C) during the period of high sun; (ii)moderately high annual temperature range 17-120C and very high daily range 20-30°C. (iii) annual rainfall less than 4cm; and (iv)annual evaporation from a free water surface exceeding 200cm?
    إجابة
    (A)
    Tropical desert climate, Bwh
  • 19
    Chemicals weathering processes include all except ONE of the following?
    إجابة
    (B)
    Transportation
  • 20
    Elements of weather and climate include all but ONE of the following:
    إجابة
    (D)
    Altitude
  • 21
    Which town does NOT properly belong to the group?
    إجابة
    (B)
    Forcados
  • 22
    Which of these does NOT lie in the principal earthquake regions of the world?
    إجابة
    (E)
    Mali
  • 23
    All but ONE of the following raw materials needed for Nigeria's iron and steel industry are available locally?
    إجابة
    (E)
    Manganese
  • 24
    Only one of these statements about West Africa is true. Which is it?
    إجابة
    (C)
    Nigeria alone has just half as much population as the rest of West Africa put together
  • 25
    Which of these statements about Africa is NOT true?
    إجابة
    (C)
    Africa is the least unbanized continent although urbanization started early in Africa
  • 26
    Which of the following problems has posed the greatest threat to farmers in Anambra State?
    إجابة
    (C)
    Gully erosion
  • 27
    The greatest volume of shipping across the Atlantic Ocean is?
    إجابة
    (D)
    between Europe and North America
  • 28
    Which of the following is NOT a reason for migration in West Africa?
    إجابة
    (D)
    To run away from poverty
  • 29
    Uganda's exports and imports pass through the port of?
    إجابة
    (A)
    Mombassa
  • 30
    Which of the following pairs of natural resources is most vital for the development of heavy industries?
    إجابة
    (C)
    Iron ore and coal
  • 31
    For which of the following pairs of economic activities is the Ukraine (in the U.S.S.R) famous
    إجابة
    (A)
    Commercial grain agriculture and livestock ranching
  • 32
    Which of the following economic activities involves the use of machinery, much land, but few people?
    إجابة
    (A)
    Commercial grain agriculture
  • 33
    Which of the following conditions leads to rapid population growth?
    إجابة
    (A)
    A declining death rate and an increasing birth rate
  • 34
    Of the following regions, the one that has the highest potentiality for the production of softwood timber for manufacture of paper is the?
    إجابة
    (E)
    coniferous forest of Scandinavia
  • 35
    Each of the following pairs consist of a region of high population density and a region of very low population. Which is an appropriate pair?
    إجابة
    (D)
    The lower Nile Valley Ganges Delta
  • 36
    Which of the following is NOT an objective of industrialization in Nigeria?
    إجابة
    (B)
    Encouraging migration from the rural areas
  • 37
    Nigeria's three steel rolling mills will be located around?
    إجابة
    (B)
    Katsina, Oshogbo and Jos
  • 38
    Which of the following mining methods and minerals are NOT related?
    إجابة
    (C)
    planning-coal
  • 39
    The main cash crop produced in the area shaded on the map above is
    إجابة
    (C)
    used in making textile materials
  • 40
    Name the moraine labelled 'P' in the diagram above
    إجابة
    (A)
    Terminal moraine
  • 41
    Name the geographical phenomenon happening in the diagram above
    إجابة
    (A)
    Lunar eclipse
  • 42
    Describe the climate of the shaded area on the above map
    إجابة
    (B)
    hot wet summer, warm winter
  • 43
    Which of the following statement is a correct inference from the above diagram?
    إجابة
    (A)
    Malays are a minority group
  • 44
    In which of these West African countries does groundnut alone constitute around 70% of the country's export earnings?
    إجابة
    (E)
    Senegal
  • 45
    Assuming that there is no vegetation cover in the area shown on the map above and that the weather is clear, which of the following statements would be false?
    إجابة
    (D)
    P is visible from M