The following are advantages of overpopulation except?
Answer
(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?
Answer
(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
Answer
(D)
20 persons per km\(^2\)
4
The birth rate of a country can be increased through the following except?
Answer
(D)
legislation against abortion
5
Which of the following zones is the least industrialized in Nigeria?
Answer
(A)
Lokoja-Ajaokuta
6
The following are areas of lowlands in Nigeria except?
Answer
(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?
Answer
(D)
Tropical maritime airmass
8
Which of the following is not a major river basin in Nigeria?
Answer
(D)
The Sokoto Basin
9
Tin-mining activities in Nigeria are the main causes of environmental degradation on the?
Answer
(C)
Jos Plateau
10
The high cost of lumbering operations in tropical forest is mainly due to?
Answer
(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?
Answer
(C)
Pastoral farming
12
The outer structure of the earth is made up of the following except?
Answer
(A)
Mesosphere
13
Which of the following is an importance of the atmosphere to living organisms?
Answer
(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?
Answer
(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?
Answer
(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?
Answer
(A)
10km, 40km
17
Which of the following is a reason for the high volume of trade between Nigeria and developed countries?
Answer
(D)
The Sokoto Basin
18
The following are seaports used in the North Atlantic sea route except?
Answer
(B)
Lagos-Montreal
19
_______ is the condition of the lower atmosphere of a place over a short period?
Answer
(B)
weather
20
In a combined maximum and minimum thermometer, the difference between the hottest and coldest daily temperature for that day gives the?
Answer
(A)
Diurnal range of temperature
21
_______ is defined as the total surrounding or medium of any organism in a given area?
Answer
(C)
Environment
22
Which of the following processes leads to the loss of carbon from the air?
Answer
(D)
photosynthesis
23
On maps, lines drawn to join all places in the ocean having equal degree of salinity are called?
Answer
(A)
isohalines
24
Where the salinity of an ocean is high;
Answer
(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?
Answer
(A)
Field capacity
26
The lowest part in the soil profile is known as?
Answer
(D)
bedrock
27
Which of the following is not a graphical representation of statistical data?
Answer
(C)
Shaded map
28
Which of the following is a vegetation characteristics of the Tropical rainforest?
Answer
(A)
Trees are not in pure stand
29
Which of the following is a problem of landlocked countries?
Answer
(D)
Political dependence
30
One of the following is not a problem involved in harnessing solar energy?
Answer
(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?
Answer
(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?
Answer
(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?
Answer
(B)
Denudation
34
Which of the following is an effect of the earth's revolution?
Answer
(B)
It determines a year
35
The soil gains nitrogen through one of the following except?
