JAMB UTME - Geography - 1978

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Pergunta 2 Relatório

What is the Nile valley best known for?

Industrial development

Water navigation

Commerce

Development

Hydro-electricity

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Pergunta 3 Relatório

When is the earth relative to the sun in the position shown in the diagram above?

December 22

March 21

June 21

September 22

October 23

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Pergunta 4 Relatório

Which of the following zones is the least industrialized in Nigeria?

Lokoja-Ajaokuta

Lagos-Ikeja

Port harcourt-Aba

Kaduna-Zaria

Abeokuta-Ibadan

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Pergunta 5 Relatório

How were the major mountain belts of the world produced?

By wind erosion

By Folding

By glacial erosion

By weathering

By river deposition

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Pergunta 6 Relatório

Temperature is to isotherms as air pressure is to

isopleths

contours

isobars

isolines

isohyets

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Geographic Information System (GIS)**

Statistical Maps And Diagrams

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Pergunta 7 Relatório

What does subsistence agriculture mean?

Intensive agriculture

Extensive agriculture

Agricultural production for cash

Agricultural production for export

Agricultural production for household consumption

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Pergunta 8 Relatório

What is a typical farmer in the Sudan savannah of Nigeria most likely to be doing in June?

Clearing his land for planting

Planting his main cash crop

Harvesting his main cash crop

Resting because he has less to do

Taking part in a fishing festival

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Pergunta 9 Relatório

If a map at a scale of 1:50,000 is reduced by half, what is the new scale of the map?

1:250,000

1:25,000

1:200,000

1:100,000

1:125,000

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Pergunta 10 Relatório

Which of the following factors must account for the rapid increase in world population during the twentieth century?

The slave trade was abolished

Death rates have decreased rapidly

Birth rates have increased rapidly

Increasing world production of food

Large-scale migration of people

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Pergunta 11 Relatório

Smooth oval hills composed mainly of boulders or glacial sands and gravels are known as

eskers

drumlins

moraines

aretes

pyramidal peaks

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 12 Relatório

Give the most appropriate name for the feature P.

Col

Plateau

Valley

Elbow

Spur

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 13 Relatório

Which of the following statements is not borne out by the pie graph?

Asia is the world's largest producer of natural rubber

Africa is a major producer of natural rubber

Natural rubber comes mainly from developing countries

The developed countries are not producers of natural rubber

Natural rubber is a product of the hot lands of the world

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Statistical Maps And Diagrams

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Pergunta 14 Relatório

On a population map of the world, all but one of the following appear generally as regions of low population density

The hot deserts

The Amazon forests

Antarctica

The island of Java

The Canadian shield

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 15 Relatório

Inter-regional trade between countries in West Africa is promoted mainly by

relationship with former colonial rulers

production of similar goods

deliberate government policies in recent times

competition among the nations in Africa

frequent changes in government of different countries

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Regional Geography Of Liberia

Regional Geography Of Senegambia

Regional Geography Of Ghana

Regional Geography Of Sierra Leone

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Pergunta 16 Relatório

Estimate the highest of trigonometry station.

315 metres

320 metres

325 metres

345 metres

365 metres

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Pergunta 17 Relatório

The length of a year is 365(1/4)days because that is the time it takes

the sun to revolve round its orbit

the earth to rotate on its axis

the moon to revolve once round the earth

the sun to revolve once round the earch

the earth to revolve once round the sun

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 18 Relatório

Name the feature shown in the diagram above

Grag and tail

Seif dune

Nunatak

Inselberg

Crescent dune

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 19 Relatório

Pick out the incorrect statement

The Ruhr is a great industrial region

Scandinavia is noted for its hardwood timber

The North Sea is a great fishing area

Katanga is a copper mining region

Woollen fabrics are manufactured in Yorkshire

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Industry

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Pergunta 20 Relatório

What is the most likely cause for the paucity of surface streams on the eastern half of the area?

No rainfall

Rugged topography

Flat terrain

Poor vegetation

Nature of the rocks

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 21 Relatório

The scarcity of settlements on the eastern half of the area is probably due to

Absence of roads

Scarcity of surface water

Rough topography

Swampy land surface

Insect pests

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Regional Geography

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Pergunta 22 Relatório

In which of the following countries is commercial grain farming an important occupation?

Nigeria

Kenya

Spain

Canada

Brazil

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Industry

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Pergunta 23 Relatório

Which of the following currents has a warming influence upon the coast along which it flows?

Mozambique current

Labrador current

Benguela current

Canaries current

Humboldt current

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 24 Relatório

Two factors which promote rapid chemical weathering in the tropics are

high temperature and extreme aridity

high temperature and low humidity

low temperature and high humidity

high temperature and high humidity

high temperature and low rainfall

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 25 Relatório

Which of the following phenomena is not directly related to the revolution of the earth?

seasonal changes

varrying duration of sunshine hours

unequal solar radiation on the earth's surface

night and day

the tropics

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 26 Relatório

What is the angular bearing of settlement Dor from settlement can?

40 ^o

45 ^o

300 ^o

320 ^o

325 ^o

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Pergunta 27 Relatório

Which of the following factors least explains the fast growing population in Africa?

control of diseases

decline in death rate

the education of women

improvement in transportation

provision of more hospitals

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World Population

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Pergunta 28 Relatório

Which of the following lakes owes its origin mainly to faulting?

Lake Chad

Lake Superior

Lake Malawi

Lake Victoria

lake Kariba

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 29 Relatório

Which one of the following countries has an export trade which is dominated by a single mineral?

Central Africa Empire

Uganda

Kenya

Zambia

Mozambique

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Pergunta 30 Relatório

The wearing away of the sides and bottom of a river's channel is called

hydraulic action

corrosion

attrition

corrasion

solution

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Physical Geography

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Pergunta 31 Relatório

The greatest volume of shipping across the Atlantic Ocean is

between Africa and South America

between Africa and North America

between North America and South America

between Europe and North America

between Europe and Africa

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Settlement

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Pergunta 32 Relatório

Which of the following towns is NOT a pre-colonial town?

Ilorin

Bida

Enugu

Ibadan

Kano

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Human Geography

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Pergunta 33 Relatório

Which of the following pairs best accounts for the importance of Ere? 1. Road junction. 2. Industries 3. Commerce 4. River Ere.

1 and 3

3 and 4

1 and 4

2 and 3

2 and 4

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Transportation

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Pergunta 34 Relatório

Which statement is NOT true of the middle belt in Nigeria?

the soil is not productive

the population is sparse

there are insect pests and disease carriers

mineral resources can be found there

none of the above

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Industry

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Pergunta 35 Relatório

Which of the following phrases best describes the entire area on the right bank of River Ere?

A dissected upland

A dissected plateau

A glaciated mountain

An undulating land

A scarp land

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Pergunta 36 Relatório

Which of the following groups of activities are most likely to be important in this area?

Animal husbandry and mining

Trade and commerce

Mining and commerce

Arable farming and lumbering

Lumbering and mining

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Industry

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Pergunta 37 Relatório

Which ONE of the following statements about the railway lines of Africa is false?

There is no trans-continental railway in Africa which can be compared with the Trans-Siberian Railway in length or importance

Africa's railway lines are all of uniform gauge

Few railway lines in Africa cross from one country to another

The railway lines of Africa generally run from the coast inland

The densest railway network in Africa is in the Republic of South Africa

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Regional Geography Of Liberia

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Pergunta 38 Relatório

Mixed farming implies

growing crops and rearing animals on a given land area

keeping poultry and rearing pigs on one and the same farm

growing grains and root crops on the same piece of land

mixed cultivation of wheat, barley, and oats

intercropping of yam, cassava and maize

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Industry

Human Geography

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Pergunta 39 Relatório

Which of the following most accurately describe the climate of coast lands which are adjacent to cool ocean currents?

summer rain, winter drought

winter rain, summer drought

rain all the year round

monsoon rainfall pattern

aridity

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Hydrosphere*

Physical Geography

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Pergunta 40 Relatório

Which of the following gradients is the steepest?

1 in 134

1 in 351

1 in 531

1 in 315

1 in 153

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Physical Geography