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Question 31
jamb 2025

Pick out the incorrect statement

AScandinavia is noted for its hardwood timber
BThe North Sea is a great fishing area
CKatanga is a copper mining region
DThe Ruhr is a great industrial region
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Question 32
jamb 2025

What does subsistence agriculture mean?

AAgricultural production for household consumption
BAgricultural production for cash
CExtensive agriculture
DIntensive agriculture
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Question 33
jamb 2025

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

Athe education of women
Bcontrol of diseases
Cimprovement in transportation
Ddecline in death rate
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Question 34
jamb 2025

Temperature is to isotherms as air pressure is to

Aisobars
Bisopleths
Cisolines
Dcontours
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Question 35
jamb 2025

Which of the following phenomena is not directly related to the rotation of the Earth?

Anight and day
Bvarying duration of sunshine hours
Cseasonal changes
Dunequal solar radiation on the earth's surface
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Question 36
jamb 2025

The main use of the Abney Level in surveying is to determine the

Aangle of inclination
Barea coverage
Cspot height
Drelative location
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Question 37
jamb 2025

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

ASpain
BCanada
CKenya
DNigeria
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Question 38
jamb 2025

Mixed farming implies

Agrowing crops and rearing animals on a given land area
Bgrowing grains and root crops on the same piece of land
Ckeeping poultry and rearing pigs on one and the same farm
Dmixed cultivation of wheat, barley, and oats
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Question 39
jamb 2025

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

ABida
BIlorin
CIbadan
DEnugu
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Question 40
jamb 2025

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

AIncreasing world production of food
BThe slave trade was abolished
CDeath rates have decreased rapidly
DBirth rates have increased rapidly
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Question 41
jamb 2025

Two factors that promote rapid chemical weathering in the tropics are

Ahigh temperature and high humidity
Blow temperature and high humidity
Chigh temperature and extreme aridity
Dhigh temperature and low humidity
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Question 42
jamb 2025

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

Amonsoon rainfall pattern
Bwinter rain, summer drought
Crain all year round
Dsummer rain, winter drought
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Question 43
jamb 2025

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

APort Harcourt-Aba
BLokoja-Ajaokuta
CLagos-Ikeja
DKaduna-Zaria
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Question 44
jamb 2025

Name the most important industrial mineral of Ghana

ABauxite
BDiamond
CGold
D
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Question 45
jamb 2025

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

Aarêtes
Bdrumlins
Cmoraines
Deskers
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Question 46
jamb 2025

Which of the following type of agriculture would you expect to find around a big city in an industrial society, such as in Europe?

ADairy farming
BGrain farming
CAnimal husbandry
DFish farming
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Question 47
jamb 2025

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

AThe Island of Java
BThe Amazon forests
CThe hot deserts
DAntarctica
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Question 48
jamb 2025

The main advantage of the chain survey over the prismatic compass survey is that the former

Adoes not require a base map
Byields relatively more accurate results
Ccloses its boundaries with no correction
Dinvolves highly more portable equipment
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Question 49
jamb 2025

A typical example of landforms produced by marine erosion is a

Astack
Bspit
Cbeach
Dmud-flat
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