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 1811: Expressways mainly help intracity traffic in that Options:
  A) the multiple lanes can hold more traffic
  B) vehicles can move at high speed
  C) they divert traffic awasy from the city
  D) new motor parks can be sited along them
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1812:

  

  River Owa overflows its bank because

  Options:
  A) Its valley has become shallow due to the deposition of alluvium
  B) The volume of water has been increased by rainfall
  C) Farmers block its channel with farm wastes
  D) Its valley is narrow
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1813: The human factor that contributes to the population growth of an area is? Options:
  A) death rate
  B) industrialization
  C) afforestation
  D) emigration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1814: 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 1815:

  A device for transferring information from analogue map into computer for further manipulation is

  Options:
  A) Aerial photograph
  B) Digitizer
  C) Global positioning system
  D) Plotter
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1816: The older fold mountains are much lower in elevation and less rugged than the younger ones largely because they? Options:
  A) are less resistance to erosion
  B) have been subjected to greater instability
  C) have experience a longer period of denudation
  D) have been subjected to greater faulting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1817: An important characteristics of the B-horizon in tropical ferruginous soils is the? Options:
  A) eluviation of oxides
  B) concentration of organic matter
  C) accumulation of oxides
  D) predominance of parent material
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1818:

  All except one are functions of a village

  Options:
  A) Lumbering function
  B) Small-scale shopping
  C) Mining function
  D) Religious function
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1819: For which of the following pairs of economic activities is the Ukraine (in the U.S.S.R) famous Options:
  A) Commercial grain agriculture and livestock ranching
  B) Commercial grain farming and industry
  C) Commercial gardening
  D) Fishing and lumbering
  E) Primitive subsistence agriculture and nomadic herding
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1820: Conakry is the capital of Options:
  A) Algiers
  B) Guinea
  C) Antananarivo
  D) johannesburg
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  The correct answer is B .