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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(A)
50 persons per km \(^{2}\)
4
The birth rate of a country can be increased through the following except
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(B)
Inadequate health services
5
The following are areas of lowlands in Nigeria except in Nigeria
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(B)
The Eastern Scarpland
6
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
7
Which of the following is not a major river basin in Nigeria?
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(D)
The Sokoto Basin
8
Tin-mining activities in Nigeria are the main causes of environmental degradation on the?
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(C)
Jos Plateau
9
The high cost of lumbering operations in tropical forest is mainly due to?
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(C)
Absence of pure stands of trees
10
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
11
The outer structure of the earth is made up of the following except?
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(A)
Mesosphere
12
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
13
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
14
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
15
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
16
Which of the following is a reason for the high volume of trade between Nigeria and developed countries?
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(C)
colonial Ties
17
The following are seaports used in the North Atlantic sea route except
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(B)
Lagos-Montreal
18
_______ is the condition of the lower atmosphere of a place over a short period
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(B)
Weather
19
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
20
_______ is defined as the total surrounding or medium of any organism in a given area
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(C)
Environment
21
Which of the following processes leads to the loss of carbon from the air
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(D)
photosynthesis
22
On maps, lines drawn to join all places in the ocean having equal degree of salinity are called
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(A)
isohalines
23
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
24
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
25
The part labelled X in the soil profile is known as
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(D)
bedrock
26
Which of the following is not a graphical representation of statistical data?
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(C)
Shaded map
27
Which of the following is a vegetation characteristics of the Tropical rainforest?
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(A)
Trees are not in pure stand
28
Which of the following is a problem of landlocked countries
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(D)
Political dependence
29
One of the following is not a problem involved in harnessing solar energy?
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(B)
Adequacy of capital
30
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
31
________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
32
What is the process of lowering and levelling of the earth surface by gradual breaking and wearing away of such earth's surfaces.
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(B)
Denudation
33
What is the process of lowering and levelling 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
36
Which of the following is a way of controlling soil erosion
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(B)
Contour ploughing
37
__________ is a highland area which seperates the headstreams of rivers flowing in different directions but rising from the same mountainous source
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(C)
Watershed
38
___________ is a layer of very fine wind-deposited sand and silt?
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(A)
loess
39
An important mineral deposit in south Africa which has attracted a large number of white settler is
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(C)
Gold in Witwatersrand
40
Which of the following gives the correct full meaning of G.I.S?
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(D)
Geographic Information System
41
Which of the following statistical mapping techniques is most suitable for showing the spatial distribution of cattle in the different northern states of Nigeria?
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(A)
Dot map
42
Plants in the savannah are adapted mainly to alternating periods of high and low?
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(B)
Water supply
43
The prosperity of Kenya depends on the cultivation of
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(D)
coffee, maize and sisal
44
Which of the following is not an example of mineral resources?
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(A)
Latex
45
Arrange the following scales in ascending order: 1:50,000, 1:200,000, 1:200, 1:300,000
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(B)
1:300,000,1:200,000,1:50,000,1:200
46
Which of the following is not a precaution to be taken when making a compass traverse?
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(D)
The compass must be held vertically so that the edge of the card does not rub against the top of the compass
47
One of the following is not a sequence of denudation
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(C)
Decomposition
48
What is the longitude of a town Y whose local time is 12:00 noon when Greenwich mean time is 6:00pm
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(A)
90\(^o\) W
49
Which of the following food chains is impossible?
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(B)
Grass→Toad→grasshopper→rat
50
Which of the following activities does not control soil erosion
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(B)
deforestation
51
Which of the following is not an importance of Geographic Information System(G.I.S)
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(C)
funds mismanagement
52
________ are projection of highlands into low grounds i.e the v-shape points to the low land?
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(C)
Spurs
53
_______ is a large mass of igneous mound with a dome-shaped upper surface and a level base?
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(A)
Laccolith
54
The instrument used in measuring the intensity of an earthquake is known as?
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(C)
Seismograph
55
_________ is formed when two corries cut back opposite sides of the same mountain, resulting in a knife-edged ridge
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(D)
Arete
56
One of the following is not a favourable condition for siting a settlement
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(D)
Infertility of soil
57
The name given to two or more towns/cities which have grown to merge with one another is?
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(C)
Conurbation
58
Which of the following is not a problem of the Economic Community of West Africa States(ECOWAS)?
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(A)
Trade liberalization
59
Which of the following important fruits is produced in North-West Africa?
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(B)
Tangerines
60
Which of the following statements is right?
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(B)
In West Africa, plantation are on fertile lowlands
61
Interdependence within the ecosystem can best be interpreted to mean that components of the ecosystem
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(D)
interact with one another
62
Which of the following is not a measure of environmental control?
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(C)
Degradation
63
Which of the following is not a proof of the earth's sphericity?
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(B)
deflection of winds
64
Which of the following types of rock is a source of energy?
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(B)
Coal
65
_______ transport is the slowest and the cheapest means of transort
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(C)
Rail
66
Which of the following is a limitation of rail transport in developing countries?
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(A)
Lack of technical know-how
67
One of the following is the most important major ocean(shipping) route
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(D)
The north atlantic route
68
Which of the following is a problem of world transportation?
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(D)
poor visibility
69
One of the following is not a vegetation belt in lagos state
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(C)
The savannah
70
All except one are functions of a village
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(C)
Mining function
71
________ is formed from the combination of several local government areas
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(A)
State
72
It takes mecury how many days to complete its orbit?
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(B)
88
73
The relative dryness of the Horn Africa is due to
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(B)
The shape and direction of the shoreline
74
The development of a climax vegetation in the savannah belt of Nigeria is disturbed mainly by
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(D)
Bush burning
75
______ is a collection of building with people living them
