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 31:

  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 32: The process whereby a manufacturing enterprise produces goods which form raw materials for other manufacturing enterprises is referred to as? Options:
  A) value added
  B) sub-contracting
  C) forward linkage
  D) backward linkage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 33: In west Africa,the forest-savannah mosaic is the vegetation pattern characteristic of the? Options:
  A) derived savannah
  B) Southern Guinea savannah
  C) tree savannah
  D) woodland savannah
  E) gallery forests
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 34: The mass of air whose isobars form a circular shape, with low pressure in the centre and increasing towards the outside, is known as? Options:
  A) hurricane
  B) typhoon
  C) harmathan
  D) cyclone
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 35: The scientist who prepounded the theory of continental drift was Options:
  A) Alfred Wegener
  B) William Davis
  C) Arthur Holmes
  D) Francis Bacon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 36:

  Which of the following has the highest salinity?

  Options:
  A) Dead sea
  B) Mediterranean sea
  C) Red sea
  D) South Atlantic ocean
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 37:

  South-facing slopes are favourable for rural settlement locations in the cool temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere because they

  Options:
  A) receive more solar energy
  B) are agriculturally more productive
  C) are always well drained
  D) offer good shelter from storms
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 38: Urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been enhanced mostly by? Options:
  A) natural population growth
  B) rural-urban migration
  C) agricultural development
  D) housing development
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 39:

  Which of the following is an effect of the earth's revolution?

  Options:
  A) Day and night
  B) It determines a year
  C) Dawn and Twilight
  D) Apparent Sunrise and sunset
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 40: Which of the following factors account for the traffic on Africa rivers? 1. Availability of cheaper means of transport 2. Seasonal fluctuations of river flow. 3. Pressure of water falls and rapids. 4. Rivers flowing through sparsely populated areas. Options:
  A) 1 and 2
  B) 2 and 3
  C) 1 and 4
  D) 3 and 4
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  The correct answer is B .