WAEC - Geography (2023)

  • 1
    Which of the following criteria is used to classify settlements into rural or urban?
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    (C)
    Function
  • 2
    Industries are broadly classified into
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    (A)
    primary, secondary and tertiary
  • 3
    Under the Greek system of climate classification, the world is divided into
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    (C)
    torrid, temperate and frigid zones
  • 4

    The scale of the map in Representative Fraction(RF) is

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    (B)
    1:100,000
  • 5

    What is the highest contour line in the mapped area?

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    (C)
    500 metres
  • 6

    Stone crushing is an economic activity at 

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    (C)
    Umughara
  • 7

    Which of the following towns is not intervisible from Agubia?

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    (B)
    Nsuba
  • 8
    The feature marked P in the mapped area can best be described as a
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    (D)
    ridge
  • 9

    The distance between Umughara and Ndifu Achara as the crow flies is approximately

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    (B)
    18 km
  • 10

    The bearing of Ameka from Aba Omege road junction is approximately

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    (B)
    22o
  • 11

    The likely occupation of the people of Ndifu Achara settlement is

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    (C)
    rice farming
  • 12

    At what stage is River Aboye?

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    (B)
    Youthful stage
  • 13

    The area covered by the map is approximately

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    (D)
    1010 Km2
  • 14

    The table above shows the temperature and rainfall distribution of station Z. Study and use it to answer questions 11 to 13.

     

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    (B)
    10 oC
  • 15

    The table above shows the temperature and rainfall distribution of station Z. Study and use it to answer questions 11 to 13.

    Which month of the year has the highest temperature?

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    (B)
    april
  • 16

    The table above shows the temperature and rainfall distribution of station Z. Study and use it to answer questions 11 to 13.

    The wettest month of the year is

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    (D)
    August
  • 17
    Which of the following is not a problem facing transportation development in Tropical Africa?
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    (A)
    Climatic variation
  • 18
    The main reason for which most manufacturing industries in West Africa are concentrated in cities and towns along the coast is that they have
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    (B)
    large urban market
  • 19
    Town C is located on latitude 15oE while Town D is located on latitude 60oE. If the local time in Town C is 7.00am., what will be the local time in Town D?
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    (C)
    10.00 a.m
  • 20
    A smaller range of temperature is recorded along the coast than the continental interior on the same latitudes because of the
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    (A)
    moderating influence of the sea
  • 21
    The most common form of migration experienced in countries of Tropical Africa is
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    (D)
    rural-urban migration
  • 22
    Which of the following is not a process of chemical weathering?
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    (A)
    Frost action
  • 23
    Which of the following factors is a major boost to tourism?
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    (A)
    Adequate publicity about natural scenery
  • 24
    Which of the following is not a plantation crop?
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    (D)
    Rye
  • 25
    More Hydroelectric Power projects should be constructed in Tropical Africa because
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    (D)
    there is an increasing demand for power
  • 26
    Which of the following features is associated with the upper course of a river?
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    (D)
    Waterfall
  • 27
    Which of the following is an important line of longitude?
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    (C)
    Prime Meridian
  • 28
    Which of the following distinguishes rotation from revolution?
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    (B)
    Revolution causes day and night while rotation while rotation causes season
  • 29
    Which of the following is a wind deposited landforms?
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    (D)
    Loess
  • 30
    Which of the following landforms is associated with parallel faulting?
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    (D)
    Rift valley
  • 31
    What is the population density of a country with a total population of 140,000,000 and a total land area of 500,000 km2?
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    (A)
    280 persons per km2
  • 32
    Which of the following landforms is associated with parallel faulting?
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    (A)
    rift valley
  • 33
    What is the temperature around an aeroplane flying at an altitude of 4000 metres if the temperature on the earth surface is 40 oC?
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    (C)
    14 oC
  • 34
    A block mountain is formed as a result of
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    (C)
    vulcanicity
  • 35
    Great Britain and Germany are trading partners of West African countries from
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    (B)
    West Europe
  • 36
    The part of the earth crust covered by water bodies is known as the
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    (D)
    hydrosphere
  • 37
    The sun is vertically overhead at the tropic of Capricorn on
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    (D)
    December 22nd
  • 38
    Buying and selling of goods and services within a country is termed as
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    (D)
    internal trade
  • 39
    An isotherm is a line drawn on a map joining places of equal
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    (C)
    temperature
  • 40
    Which of the following rocks is produced by the solidification of magma within the earth crust?
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    (A)
    Plutonic rock
  • 41
    Barchan dunes move
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    (A)
    at right angle to the prevailing wind
  • 42
    Which of the following pairs of landforms can be found in the desert areas?
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    (D)
    Zeugens and rock pedestals
  • 43
    A major function performed by rural settlement is
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    (A)
    agricultural
  • 44
    The sparse population in the middle belt of West Africa can be traced to all the following except
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    (A)
    concentration of industries
  • 45
    The type of energy that is most environmentally friendly is
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    (A)
    solar