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 421:

  What is the process of lowering and levelling of the earth surface by gradual breaking and wearing away of such earth's surfaces.

  Options:
  A) Weathering
  B) Denudation
  C) Relief
  D) Mass wasting
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 422: Which of the following features affects inter-visibility between two settlements? Options:
  A) Deep trench
  B) Broad valley
  C) High hill
  D) Wide river
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 423: Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the International Date Line? Options:
  A) A traveller loses a day by crossing from the East to the West
  B) A traveller gains a day crossing from theWest to the East
  C) The line is appoximately along the 180° Merdian
  D) Local time is the same on either side
  E) The line has a zigzag shape
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 424:

  Which are three main export crops of Uganda?

  1.Bananas 2.Coffee 3.Cotton 4.Groundnuts 5.Sugar 6.Cassava 7.Tobacco

  Options:
  A) 1&5&7
  B) 2&3&7
  C) 2&4&5
  D) 1&6&7
  E) 3&4&6
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 425:

  If the scale of two maps are (a;1:100,000 and b;1:400,000) what is the ground distance if the distance between two towns on the maps is 10cm

  Options:
  A) 10km, 40km
  B) 5km, 20km
  C) 2.5km, 10km
  D) 20km, 80km
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 426: The highest category of rural settlement is the? Options:
  A) village
  B) halmet
  C) homestead
  D) hut
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 427: The wearing away of the sides and bottom of a river's channel is called Options:
  A) hydraulic action
  B) corrosion
  C) attrition
  D) corrasion
  E) solution
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 428:

  High temperatures and heavy rainfall throughout the year describe the climate of?

  Options:
  A) India, Uganda and Ethiopia
  B) Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Ghana
  C) Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil and Indonesia
  D) Britain, North and South Korea and Nambia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 429: The cheapest means of transport for long distance travel is by? Options:
  A) rail
  B) water
  C) air
  D) road
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 430:

  

  Which of the ports indicated on the map does NOT have a natural harbour?

  Options:
  A) H
  B) J
  C) K
  D) L
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  The correct answer is B .