Which of the following phenomena is not directly related to the rotation of the earth?
Answer
(D)
night and day
2
Which pair of activities would you NOT find in an equatorial climate?
1. commercial grain farming. 2. rice cultivation. 3. lumbering. 4. plantation agriculture. 5. dry farming
Answer
(D)
1 and 5
3
Inter-regional trade between countries in West Africa is promoted mainly by
Answer
(C)
deliberate government policies in recent times
4
Which statement is NOT true of the middle belt in Nigeria?
Answer
(E)
none of the above
5
Which of the following zones is the least industrialized in Nigeria?
Answer
(A)
Lokoja-Ajaokuta
6
Which purpose is NOT served by the Kainji Dam?
Answer
(C)
provision of fishing facilities
7
What is the Nile valley best known for?
Answer
(E)
Hydro-electricity
8
Which is not exported by the Republic of South Africa?
Answer
(E)
Wheat
9
Name the most important industrial mineral of Ghana
Answer
(D)
Gold
10
Which of the following factors least explains the fast growing population in Africa?
Answer
(D)
improvement in transportation
11
If a map at a scale of 1:50,000 is reduced by half, what is the new scale of the map?
Answer
(D)
1:100,000
12
Which of the following most accurately describe the climate of coast lands which are adjacent to cool ocean currents?
Answer
(E)
aridity
13
How were the major mountain belts of the world produced?
Answer
(B)
By Folding
14
Which of the following factors must account for the rapid increase in world population during the twentieth century?
Answer
(B)
Death rates have decreased rapidly
15
What does subsistence agriculture mean?
Answer
(E)
Agricultural production for household consumption
16
Which of the following type of agriculture would you expect to find around a big city in an industrial society such as in Europe?
Answer
(A)
Dairy farming
17
Which of the following provides the best location for a bakery?
Answer
(C)
Near a large market for bread
18
The greatest volume of shipping across the Atlantic Ocean is
Answer
(D)
between Europe and North America
19
Which of the following towns is NOT a pre-colonial town?
Answer
(C)
Enugu
20
Which of the following has the highest mean annual rainfall?
Answer
(A)
Freetown
21
The Middle Best of West Africa is NOT characterised by one of the following. Which one?
Answer
(D)
Much export crop production
22
Which ONE of the following statements about the railway lines of Africa is false?
Answer
(B)
Africa's railway lines are all of uniform gauge
23
Which one of the following countries has an export trade which is dominated by a single mineral?
Answer
(A)
Central Africa Empire
24
A World Title Boxing contest took place in New York (75°W time zone) on a Tuesday between 21:30 and 22:30 Hours and was televised live. When did viewers in Lagos (15°E time zone) watch the contest live on television?
Answer
(A)
Wednesday between 03:30 and 04:30 Hours
25
Which of the following currents has a warming influence upon the coast along which it flows?
Answer
(A)
Mozambique current
26
Which of the following lakes owes its origin mainly to faulting?
Answer
(A)
Lake Chad
27
The wearing away of the sides and bottom of a river's channel is called
Answer
(D)
corrasion
28
Temperature is to isotherms as air pressure is to
Answer
(C)
isobars
29
Which of the following gradients is the steepest?
Answer
(C)
1 in 531
30
In which of the following countries is commercial grain farming an important occupation?
Answer
(E)
Brazil
31
Pick out the incorrect statement
Answer
(B)
Scandinavia is noted for its hardwood timber
32
The length of a year is 365(1/4)days because that is the time it takes
Answer
(E)
the earth to revolve once round the sun
33
Two factors which promote rapid chemical weathering in the tropics are
Answer
(D)
high temperature and high humidity
34
Smooth oval hills composed mainly of boulders or glacial sands and gravels are known as
Answer
(B)
drumlins
35
On a population map of the world, all but one of the following appear generally as regions of low population density
Answer
(C)
Antarctica
36
Mixed farming implies
Answer
(A)
growing crops and rearing animals on a given land area
37
What is a typical farmer in the Sudan savannah of Nigeria most likely to be doing in June?
Answer
(A)
Clearing his land for planting
38
When is the earth relative to the sun in the position shown in the diagram above?
Answer
(C)
June 21
39
Name the feature shown in the diagram above
Answer
(E)
Crescent dune
40
Name the climate represented by the data
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Temp o C 14 17 23 28 33 34 31 30 29 26 20 15
Rain mm 23 18 13 18 13 74 180 174 117 10 3 10
Answer
(D)
Tropical climate
41
Which of the following statements is not borne out by the pie graph?
Answer
(E)
Natural rubber is a product of the hot lands of the world
42
Nigeria is the world's leading producer of
Answer
(C)
Columbite
43
Give the most appropriate name for the feature P.
Answer
(A)
Col
44
What is the angular bearing of settlement Dor from settlement can?
