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 2131:

  The following are areas of lowlands in Nigeria except?

  Options:
  A) The Chad Basin
  B) The Eastern Scarpland
  C) The Coaster plain
  D) The Niger-Benue trough
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2132: Which of the following human disease is often heightened by the introduction of irrigation farming in an area? Options:
  A) Bilharzia
  B) Dysentery
  C) River blindness
  D) Cholera
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2133:

  The most capital-intensive sector of Nigeria economy to day is

  Options:
  A) Transportation
  B) Trading
  C) Agriculture
  D) Mining
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2134:

  The main reason for which most manufacturing industries in West Africa are concentrated in cities and towns along the coast is that they have

  Options:
  A) a large number of warehouses
  B) large urban market
  C) a large pool of unskilled labour
  D) numerous banks
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2135:

  The function performed by urban to the rural settlement in supply of

  Options:
  A) Industrial raw materials
  B) medicinal herbs
  C) food
  D) maufactured goods
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2136:

  Which of the following is a problem of landlocked countries?

  Options:
  A) security of goods
  B) political stability
  C) low freight cost
  D) political independence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2137:

  Which of the following mining methods and minerals are NOT related?

  Options:
  A) Open cast mining-bauxite
  B) Dredging-gold
  C) planning-coal
  D) Pumping-petroleum
  E) Placer mining-tin
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2138: The development of coal as a source of energy is relatively on the decline because of? Options:
  A) declining demand
  B) its bulkiness
  C) its non-availability
  D) the development of new sources of energy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2139: Name the most important industrial mineral of Ghana Options:
  A) Diamond
  B) Bauxite
  C) Manganese
  D) Gold
  E) Aluminium
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2140:

  Textile Industry - 7.2^o

  Petroleum Industry - 172.8^o

  Iron and Steel Industry - 115.2^o

  Cosmetics Industry - 43.2^o

  Automobile Industry - 21.6^oThe table above shows the employment distribution in a town with the share of the different pie chart. Total number of workers in the town is 25,000.

  The proportion of workers in the iron and steel industry in relation to the total number of workers in the town is

  Options:
  A) 0.06
  B) 0.12
  C) 0.26
  D) 0.32
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  The correct answer is D .