JAMB - Geography (2022)

  • 1
    The following are advantages of overpopulation except?
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    (D)
    Insufficient food
  • 2
    Which of the following is best defined as the movement of people from one geographical area to another involving permanent or temporary residence or settlement?
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    (C)
    Migration
  • 3

    Use the information on country Y below to answer the question that follows:
    Land area = 200,000km\(^2\)
    Population = 10,000,000.


    calculate the population density of country Y

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    (D)
    20 persons per km\(^2\)
  • 4
    The birth rate of a country can be increased through the following except?
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    (D)
    legislation against abortion
  • 5
    Which of the following zones is the least industrialized in Nigeria?
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    (A)
    Lokoja-Ajaokuta
  • 6
    The following are areas of lowlands in Nigeria except?
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    (B)
    The Eastern Scarpland
  • 7
    The wind which blows across the Atlantic Ocean towards the coast of Nigeria and is responsible for rainy season is known as?
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    (D)
    Tropical maritime airmass
  • 8
    Which of the following is not a major river basin in Nigeria?
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    (D)
    The Sokoto Basin
  • 9
    Tin-mining activities in Nigeria are the main causes of environmental degradation on the?
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    (C)
    Jos Plateau
  • 10
    The high cost of lumbering operations in tropical forest is mainly due to?
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    (C)
    Absence of pure stands of trees
  • 11
    Which of the following farming activity best describes the rearing of only animals like cattle, sheep and goat mainly in the savanna belt of the north?
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    (C)
    Pastoral farming
  • 12
    The outer structure of the earth is made up of the following except?
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    (A)
    Mesosphere
  • 13
    Which of the following is an importance of the atmosphere to living organisms?
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    (B)
    It provides oxygen for animals and plants for respiration
  • 14
    The correct arrangement of the layers of the earth crust from the surface to the interior is?
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    (D)
    sial, sima, mantle and core
  • 15
    If the scale of a map is 2cm to 1km, what is the ground distance if the distance between two towns on the map is 20cm?
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    (C)
    10km
  • 16
    If the scale of two maps are (a;1:100,000 and b;1:400,000) what is the ground distance if the distance between two towns on the maps is 10cm?
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    (A)
    10km, 40km
  • 17
    Which of the following is a reason for the high volume of trade between Nigeria and developed countries?
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    (D)
    The Sokoto Basin
  • 18
    The following are seaports used in the North Atlantic sea route except?
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    (B)
    Lagos-Montreal
  • 19
    _______ is the condition of the lower atmosphere of a place over a short period?
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    (B)
    weather
  • 20
    In a combined maximum and minimum thermometer, the difference between the hottest and coldest daily temperature for that day gives the?
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    (A)
    Diurnal range of temperature
  • 21
    _______ is defined as the total surrounding or medium of any organism in a given area?
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    (C)
    Environment
  • 22
    Which of the following processes leads to the loss of carbon from the air?
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    (D)
    photosynthesis
  • 23
    On maps, lines drawn to join all places in the ocean having equal degree of salinity are called?
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    (A)
    isohalines
  • 24
    Where the salinity of an ocean is high;
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    (B)
    the ocean water is dense and creeps at the bottom of the ocean towards low salinity areas
  • 25
    The type of water left in the soil after excess water has been drained off, following heavy rainfall is known as?
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    (A)
    Field capacity
  • 26
    The lowest part in the soil profile is known as?
     
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    (D)
    bedrock
  • 27
    Which of the following is not a graphical representation of statistical data?
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    (C)
    Shaded map
  • 28
    Which of the following is a vegetation characteristics of the Tropical rainforest?
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    (A)
    Trees are not in pure stand
  • 29
    Which of the following is a problem of landlocked countries?
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    (D)
    Political dependence
  • 30
    One of the following is not a problem involved in harnessing solar energy?
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    (B)
    Adequacy of capital
  • 31
    One of the following surveying instruments is used to set out lines at right angles to the main chain line?
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    (A)
    Optical square
  • 32
    ________is the failure of the end point of a closed traverse to fall exactly on the point of origin of the transverse?
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    (C)
    Error of closure
  • 33
    What is the process of lowering and leveling of the earth surface by gradual breaking and wearing away of such earth's surfaces?
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    (B)
    Denudation
  • 34
    Which of the following is an effect of the earth's revolution?
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    (B)
    It determines a year
  • 35
    The soil gains nitrogen through one of the following except?
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    (A)
    Denitrification