JAMB - Geography (2022)

  • 1
    The following are advantages of overpopulation except?
    Trả lời
    (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?
    Trả lời
    (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

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