JAMB - Geography (2023)

  • 1
    Which of the following criteria is used to classify settlements into rural or urban?
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    (B)
    function
  • 2
    The broad-leafed evergreen and dense equatorial forest of the Amazon basin is called
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    (C)
    selvas
  • 3
    River regime is best described as the
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    (D)
    rate at which a river flows
  • 4
    Nigeria major export commodity is
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    (B)
    petroleum
  • 5
    Which of the following has the highest salinity?
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    (A)
    Dead sea
  • 6
    A settlement where two rivers meet is called a
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    (D)
    confluence town
  • 7
    Plateaux formed together with fold mountains are best described as
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    (C)
    intermoutau
  • 8
    Which of the following rocks is organically formed?
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    (C)
    shale
  • 9
    Kossou Dam is located on river
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    (C)
    badama
  • 10
    A major function performed by rural settlement is
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    (D)
    agriculture
  • 11
    A line joining all points of equal salinity is an
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    (D)
    isohaline
  • 12
    The highest concentration of industries in Nigeria is found in the
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    (C)
    Western zone
  • 13
    Which of the following is not a process of chemical weathering?
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    (A)
    frost action
  • 14
    The coastal regions of Sierra Leone record an annual rainfall of over
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    (C)
    4,800mm
  • 15
    Buying and selling of goods and services within a country is termed as
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    (D)
    internal trade
  • 16
    Which of the following is a wind deposited land form?
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    (C)
    loess
  • 17
    Which of the following represents the correct sequence in which denudation occurs?
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    (D)
    Weathering → erosion → deposition
  • 18


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

    What is the annual range of temperature for station Z

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    (A)
    \(10^o\)C
  • 19

    The table above shows the temperature and rainfall distribution of station Z. Study and use it to answer the question.Which month of the year has the highest temperature
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    (A)
    April
  • 20


    The table above shows the temperature and rainfall distribution of station Z. Study and use it to answer the question.The wettest month of the year is

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    (D)
    August
  • 21
    Water vapour is turned into water droplets by the process of
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    (D)
    condensation
  • 22
    What is the population density of a country with a total population of 140,000,000 and a total land area of 500,000 (\Km^2\)?
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    (D)
    280 persons per \(km^2\)
  • 23
    Which of the following rocks is produced by the solidification of magna within the earth crust
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    (C)
    plutonic rocks
  • 24
    Urban type of settlement is best described as
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    (C)
    nucleated
  • 25
    Crater lakes are usually associated with areas
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    (C)
    that have extinct volcanoes
  • 26
    Which of the following is associated with savanna vegetation?
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    (D)
    scrub
  • 27
    The instrument used to measure relative humidity is called
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    (A)
    hygrometer
  • 28
    Which of the following is not a problem militating against political and economic integration in West Africa?
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    (A)
    currency
  • 29
    Which of the following landforms is associated with parallel vaulting?
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    (B)
    Rift valley
  • 30
    An example of a coastline of emergence is
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    (A)
    a raised beach
  • 31
    Which of the following is not a plantation crop?
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    (D)
    rye
  • 32
    Soil erosion by action of rain can be caused y all the following except
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    (B)
    aridity
  • 33
    The sparse population in the middle belt of West Africa can be traced to all of the following except
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    (D)
    concentration of industries
  • 34
    When weathering occurs on hill slopes, rock debris usually pile up at the bottom of the hill slope to form
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    (D)
    scrcee
  • 35
    Jos plateau is an example of a
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    (B)
    Volcanic plateau
  • 36
    The world's greatest gold producer is
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    (B)
    Ghana
  • 37
    Which of the following is a major boost of tourism?
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    (A)
    adequate publicity about natural scenery
  • 38
    Africa has the largest potential reserve of hydro-electric power in the world because
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    (A)
    it is surrounded by large oceans
  • 39
    Great Britain and Germany are trading partners of west African countries from
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    (A)
    Western Europe
  • 40
    Under the Greek system of climate classification, the world is divided into
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    (D)
    torrid, temperate and frigid zones
  • 41
    Which of the following is a feature of heavy industries?
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    (A)
    capital intensive
  • 42
    Which of the following is not true of the North Atlantic sea route?
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    (C)
    Goods carried on the route include grains
  • 43
    Soil erosion by action of rain can be caused by all of the following except
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    (D)
    aridity
  • 44
    In which erosional plain is an inselberg commonly found
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    (B)
    flood plain
  • 45
    The largest ocean in the world is the
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    (D)
    Pacific ocean
  • 46
    The type of energy that is most environmentally friendly is
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    (D)
    solar
  • 47
    Rocks are said to be crystalline when the atoms forming them are
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    (C)
    arrenged in a deposit pattern
  • 48
    The part of the earth crust covered by water bodies is known as the
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    (A)
    hydrosphere
  • 49
    The coastal regions of Sierra Leone record an annual rainfall of over
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    (C)
    4,800mm
  • 50
    Which of the following pairs of landforms can be found in the desert areas?
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    (B)
    Zeugens and rock pedestals
  • 51
    Which of the following sources of power supply is renewable?
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    (D)
    cone
  • 52
    Which of the following is not correct about the great circle?
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    (B)
    The Greenwich Meridian and the International Date Line are the only lines of latitude forming a Great Circle
  • 53
    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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    (A)
    a large number of warehouses
  • 54
    The type of agriculture in which water is conserved in a year so that crops can be grown in succeeding years by ploughing, mulching or harrowing is known as
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    (D)
    dry farming
  • 55
    One of the features of wind deposition is
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    (B)
    an inselberg
  • 56
    Which of the following stations is situated in a region of tropical monsoon climate?
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    (C)
    Bombay(Munbai)
  • 57
    The instrument used to measure the duration of sunshine is the
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    (A)
    campbell-stokes recorder
  • 58
    The land-use activities which can be considered responsible for soil erosion in the tropics are
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    (C)
    industrialization, monoculture and lumbering
  • 59
    The sun is vertically overhead at the tropic of Caprison in
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    (D)
    December 22nd
  • 60
    Barchan dunes move
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    (A)
    at right angle to the prevailing wind
  • 61
    The major crop grown in the El juf Basin of Mali is
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    (A)
    Cotton
  • 62
    What is the temperature around an aeroplane flying at an altitude of 4000metres if the temperature on the earth's surface is \(40ºc\)?
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    (A)
    \(14^0C\)
  • 63
    A block mountain is formed as a result of
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    (D)
    faulting
  • 64
    Quartz, fieldspar and mica are three principal mineral that can easily be seen in
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    (D)
    granite
  • 65
    The difference in time between two longitudes is approximately
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    (D)
    4 minutes
  • 66
    The dam which is not used in Gezira is the
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    (C)
    Jebal Azula
  • 67
    The most common form of migration experienced in countries of Tropical Africa is
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    (D)
    rural-urban migration
  • 68
    A slope is said to be even when the contours are
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    (D)
    equally placed
  • 69
    Which of the following distinguishes rotation from revolution?
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    (D)
    The earth rotates on its axis while it revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit
  • 70
    Countries in the northern hemisphere experience shorter days and longer nights when the sun is overhead on the
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    (C)
    Tropic of Cancer