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 1231:

  One of the following surveying instruments is used to set out lines at right angles to the main chain line?

  Options:
  A) Optical square
  B) Station pegs
  C) Offset staff
  D) Steel Band
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1232: Which of the following sets of rocks is organically formed? Options:
  A) Rock salt, breccia and conglometerate
  B) Clay, mudstone and sandstone
  C) peat, chalk and limestone
  D) Girt, coal and shale
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1233: Large scale migration of people from one country to another may be explained by all of the following EXCEPT? Options:
  A) Drought
  B) civil war
  C) oppressive home government
  D) higher standard of living in the host country
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1234: The geological formation with which inselbergs are commonly associated in Nigeria is the? Options:
  A) lower cretaceous
  B) recent deposits
  C) upper cretaceous
  D) basement complex
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1235: A rift valley can develop given? Options:
  A) heavy rainfall and earthquake
  B) volcanic intrusion and avalanche
  C) parallel faults and tensional forces
  D) landslide and slump
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1236: The most dreaded pest in the Cotton Belt of the U.S.A is the Options:
  A) weaver bird
  B) beetle
  C) bollweevil
  D) white ant
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1237: The most visible form of soil erosion is? Options:
  A) wind erosion
  B) splash erosion
  C) sheet erosion
  D) gully erosion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1238:

  

  Which of the following towns are not intervisible?

  Options:
  A) Epe and Karaga
  B) Oziza and Pheku
  C) Kera and Kosi
  D) Tere and Olefi
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1239: A major problem associated with lumbering in tropical as compared with temperate forests is that the? Options:
  A) low density of rivers make log transportation costly
  B) timber trees do not grow in pure stands
  C) hardwoods are not in great demand
  D) terrain is swampy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1240: Secondary economic activities are those that involve the? Options:
  A) packaging of finished goods
  B) distribution of raw materials
  C) distribution of finished goods
  D) processing of raw materials
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  The correct answer is D .