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 11:

  The two most important factors which account for the pattern of population distribution in West Africa are

  Options:
  A) Economic prosperity and regional migration
  B) Economic prosperity and favourable physical conditions
  C) Favourable physical conditions and human inertia
  D) Historical antecedence and regional migration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 12: The great commercial grain-farming regions of the world include all but one of the following. Which is it? Options:
  A) The Prairie lands of North America
  B) the Pampas of Argentina
  C) The West African Savannah
  D) The Murray-Darling Basin of Australia
  E) The Ukraine Region of the U.S.S.R
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 13: The basic raw materials for the textile industry include? Options:
  A) cotton, wool, jute and rubber
  B) flax, wool, pulp and papyrus
  C) cotton, wool, pulp and papyrus
  D) flax, wool, silk and cotton
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 14: The soil type which favors the growth of cotton in Northern Nigeria is? Options:
  A) well drained sandy loam
  B) well drained dark clay loam
  C) light, loose sandy soils
  D) dark, hydromorphic soils
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 15: Which of these sets of economic activities is completely primary? Options:
  A) Farming, transprotation, fishing and manufacturing
  B) lumerbering, banking, transportation and farming
  C) Fishing, lumbering,farming and mining
  D) Mining, trade, farming and lumbering
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 16:

  The main effect of distance from the sea on rainfall is to reduce its

  Options:
  A) amount and seasonality
  B) amount and duration
  C) intensity and seasonality
  D) intensity and duration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 17:

  __________ is a highland area which seperates the headstreams of rivers flowing in different directions but rising from the same mountainous source

  Options:
  A) Flood plain
  B) Cuesta
  C) Watershed
  D) Plateau
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 18:

  Which of the following is a wind deposited land form?

  Options:
  A) yardang
  B) rock pedestal
  C) loess
  D) deflation hollow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 19:

  Which of the following is not a process of chemical weathering?

  Options:
  A) frost action
  B) hydrolysis
  C) oxidation
  D) carbonation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 20: The two prominent highlands at the Nigeria-Cameroun border are Options:
  A) Mambila and Oban
  B) Mandara and Alantika
  C) Udi and Shebshi
  D) Jos Plateau and Kukuruku
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  The correct answer is B .