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 41:
  

  Which of the following ethnic groups is mainly found in the area marked I?

  Options:
  A) The Ijaw
  B) The Kanuri
  C) The Tiv
  D) The yoruba
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 42:

  Which of the following is of great importance to the existence of plants?

  Options:
  A) Metal scarps
  B) Industrial effluent
  C) Carbon (IV) oxide
  D) Carbon (II) oxide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 43: In which one of the following sections of a hill slope would you expect the soil to be deepest and most moist? The Options:
  A) footslope
  B) midslope
  C) summit
  D) upper slope
  E) fall slope
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 44: The major factors accounting for increasing desertification in the West Africa Sahel are drought? Options:
  A) overgrazing and overcultivation
  B) locusts and queller birds
  C) urbanization and fuel wood exploitation
  D) harmattan and sand dunes
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 45:

  Which of the following factors may lead to an area being densely populated?

  Options:
  A) Rugged mountains
  B) High plateaux
  C) Active volcanoes
  D) Lowland plains
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 46:

  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 47: When the gradient of a river channel changes from a steep to a gentle angle, the main activity of the river will be Options:
  A) depositing
  B) eroding
  C) deepening
  D) terracing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 48: An entrepot is a pot? Options:
  A) which acts as an intermediary center of trade between countries
  B) at an entrance of a river
  C) through which only certain goods are permitted to pass
  D) wich also serves as the capital of a country
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 49:

  ________ are projection of highlands into low grounds i.e the v-shape points to the low land?

  Options:
  A) Valleys
  B) Ridges
  C) Spurs
  D) Gorger
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 50:

  

  The major economic activity in the area is likely to be

  Options:
  A) Fishing
  B) Lumbering
  C) Farming
  D) Pastoralism
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  The correct answer is A .