Geography Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Geography is the study of the Earth's landscapes, features, inhabitants, and natural phenomena. It aims to understand the locations of various elements, the reasons for their presence, and how they evolve and transform over time.

• Question 1931: A greater percentage of the population in Nigeria are engaged in? Options:
  A) public service
  B) commercial farming
  C) trading
  D) subsistence farming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1932:

  The instrument used to measure the duration of sunshine is the

  Options:
  A) campbell-stokes recorder
  B) cup-anemometer
  C) aneroid barometer
  D) aneroid barometer
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1933:

  The development of a climax vegetation in the savannah belt of Nigeria is disturbed mainly by

  Options:
  A) Lumbering
  B) Mining
  C) Animal grazing
  D) Bush burning
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1934:

  

  Which of these is not a likely reason why the only road on the mapped area runs along the elevated feature ?

  Options:
  A) it was built to avoid the low, floodable region
  B) the road reduced to a minimum the cost of building ridges and culverts across the streams
  C) the major settlements are on the elevation and the road connects to them
  D) the elevation is relatively a low one and so does not constitute an obstacle to road construction
  E) There is no other place through which the road could pass except on the elevation
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1935: The earth? Options:
  A) rotates on its axis round the moon
  B) is inclined at 66° on its orbital plane
  C) inclined at 23° on its orbital plane
  D) revolves round the sun in 365 days
  E) is a satelite of the sun
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1936: In the hydrological cycle, the transfer of water from the earth surface to the atmosphere is by? Options:
  A) precipitation
  B) infiltration
  C) evaporation
  D) condensation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1937: Which savanna vegetation is characterized by grasses of about one metre high and scattered trees
  with flattish canopy? Options:
  A) guinea
  B) sudan
  C) sahel
  D) derived
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1938: Rainfall caused by the movement of air over a mountain is called Options:
  A) Orographic rainfall
  B) Cyclonic rainfall
  C) Frontal rainfall
  D) Thunder shower
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1939: An example of a non-renewable resources is? Options:
  A) wind
  B) water
  C) solar radiation
  D) solid mineral
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1940: Which of the following reasons BEST explains why African rivers are not very navigable? Options:
  A) Low volume of water in the rivers
  B) Most of the rivers are too short
  C) Most of the river courses are interrupted by rapids
  D) The rivers are mostly seasonal
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  The correct answer is C .