What is the most important reason for moving the Federal Capital of Nigeria to Abuja?
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(A)
The area has a central location
2
For what specific purpose is the Shiroro Dam on the river Kaduna being constructed?
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(D)
Generating electricity
3
Landforms vary in Africa but there are no examples of?
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(B)
drumlins
4
Where does heavy precipitation tend to occur in the world?
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(C)
where temperature are high and winds blow off shore
5
Which of the following is a feature of a rejuvenated drainage system?
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(C)
Incised meaners
6
Which of the following rock types is non-sedimentary?
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(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?
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(D)
Sulphur
8
Two factors which together cause the varying length of day and night are?
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(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?
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(A)
colour
10
Which of these statements is NOT true of the burning of savannah?
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(E)
its makes the temperature of soil too high for the plants
11
Among West Africa countries, Togo is a leading exporter of?
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(D)
Phosphates
12
Why is rainfall in northern Chile and along the coastal belt of southern Peru so low?
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(A)
Because the coast is washed by a cool current
13
Rivers can erode their beds through the process of?
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(A)
Abrasion
14
With which of the following processes are drumlins, boulder clay and terminal moraines associated?
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(D)
Glacial depostion
15
Which of these groups of rocks consist of only sedimentary rocks and are used in the manufacture of cement?
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(C)
Coal, Limestone, gypsum
16
Which of these major soil groups is considered the most productive?
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(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?
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(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?
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(A)
Tropical desert climate, Bwh
19
Chemicals weathering processes include all except ONE of the following?
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(B)
Transportation
20
Elements of weather and climate include all but ONE of the following:
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(D)
Altitude
21
Which town does NOT properly belong to the group?
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(B)
Forcados
22
Which of these does NOT lie in the principal earthquake regions of the world?
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(E)
Mali
23
All but ONE of the following raw materials needed for Nigeria's iron and steel industry are available locally?
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(E)
Manganese
24
Only one of these statements about West Africa is true. Which is it?
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(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?
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(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?
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(C)
Gully erosion
27
The greatest volume of shipping across the Atlantic Ocean is?
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(D)
between Europe and North America
28
Which of the following is NOT a reason for migration in West Africa?
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(D)
To run away from poverty
29
Uganda's exports and imports pass through the port of?
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(A)
Mombassa
30
Which of the following pairs of natural resources is most vital for the development of heavy industries?
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(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
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(A)
Commercial grain agriculture and livestock ranching
32
Which of the following economic activities involves the use of machinery, much land, but few people?
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(A)
Commercial grain agriculture
33
Which of the following conditions leads to rapid population growth?
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(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?
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(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?
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(D)
The lower Nile Valley Ganges Delta
36
Which of the following is NOT an objective of industrialization in Nigeria?
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(B)
Encouraging migration from the rural areas
37
Nigeria's three steel rolling mills will be located around?
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(B)
Katsina, Oshogbo and Jos
38
Which of the following mining methods and minerals are NOT related?
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(C)
planning-coal
39
The main cash crop produced in the area shaded on the map above is
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(C)
used in making textile materials
40
Name the moraine labelled 'P' in the diagram above
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(A)
Terminal moraine
41
Name the geographical phenomenon happening in the diagram above
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(A)
Lunar eclipse
42
Describe the climate of the shaded area on the above map
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(B)
hot wet summer, warm winter
43
Which of the following statement is a correct inference from the above diagram?
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(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?
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(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?
