JAMB UTME - Geography - 1978
Question 1 Report
Name the climate represented by the data
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Temp o C 14 17 23 28 33 34 31 30 29 26 20 15
Rain mm 23 18 13 18 13 74 180 174 117 10 3 10
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Question 2 Report
The greatest volume of shipping across the Atlantic Ocean is
Question 4 Report
Which one of the following countries has an export trade which is dominated by a single mineral?
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Question 5 Report
Inter-regional trade between countries in West Africa is promoted mainly by
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Question 6 Report
Which of the following factors must account for the rapid increase in world population during the twentieth century?
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Question 7 Report
Which of the following statements is not borne out by the pie graph?
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Question 8 Report
What is a typical farmer in the Sudan savannah of Nigeria most likely to be doing in June?
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Question 10 Report
Which of the following phrases best describes the entire area on the right bank of River Ere?
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Question 11 Report
Which of the following factors least explains the fast growing population in Africa?
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Question 13 Report
The wearing away of the sides and bottom of a river's channel is called
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Question 14 Report
Smooth oval hills composed mainly of boulders or glacial sands and gravels are known as
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Question 15 Report
Which of the following type of agriculture would you expect to find around a big city in an industrial society such as in Europe?
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Question 17 Report
Which of the following groups of activities are most likely to be important in this area?
Question 22 Report
When is the earth relative to the sun in the position shown in the diagram above?
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Question 23 Report
The scarcity of settlements on the eastern half of the area is probably due to
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Question 24 Report
Which of the following most accurately describe the climate of coast lands which are adjacent to cool ocean currents?
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Question 25 Report
Which of the following zones is the least industrialized in Nigeria?
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Question 26 Report
What is the angular bearing of settlement Dor from settlement can?
Question 28 Report
Two factors which promote rapid chemical weathering in the tropics are
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Question 29 Report
If a map at a scale of 1:50,000 is reduced by half, what is the new scale of the map?
Question 31 Report
Which of the following pairs best accounts for the importance of Ere? 1. Road junction. 2. Industries 3. Commerce 4. River Ere.
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Question 32 Report
On a population map of the world, all but one of the following appear generally as regions of low population density
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Question 33 Report
In which of the following countries is commercial grain farming an important occupation?
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Question 37 Report
A World Title Boxing contest took place in New York (75°W time zone) on a Tuesday between 21:30 and 22:30 Hours and was televised live. When did viewers in Lagos (15°E time zone) watch the contest live on television?
Question 38 Report
The Middle Best of West Africa is NOT characterised by one of the following. Which one?
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Question 39 Report
Which statement is NOT true of the middle belt in Nigeria?
Question 40 Report
Which pair of activities would you NOT find in an equatorial climate?
1. commercial grain farming. 2. rice cultivation. 3. lumbering. 4. plantation agriculture. 5. dry farming
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Question 42 Report
Estimate the highest of trigonometry station.
Question 43 Report
Which ONE of the following statements about the railway lines of Africa is false?
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Question 44 Report
Which of the following currents has a warming influence upon the coast along which it flows?
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Question 45 Report
The length of a year is 365(1/4)days because that is the time it takes
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Question 46 Report
What is the most likely cause for the paucity of surface streams on the eastern half of the area?
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Question 49 Report
Which of the following phenomena is not directly related to the revolution of the earth?
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