Geography Past Questions And Answers
The average gradient of the rail line from the centre of Zafi to the bridge over River Saga is approximately
- A. 1:68
- B. 1:65
- C. 1:62
- D. 1:59
The peeling off of the surface layers of rounded boulders during mechanical weathering is called
- A. frost action
- B. exfoliation
- C. solifluction
- D. rock fragmentation
The most common type of intensive livestock breeding found around most Nigerian cities is farming?
- A. dairy farming
- B. cattle ranching
- C. poultry farming
- D. fish farming
------------is the movement of weathered materials under the force of gravity
- A. weathering
- B. mass movement
- C. catastrophe
- D. mountains
Pine, fir, larch and spruce are commonly found in?
- A. deciduous forest
- B. equatorial forest
- C. coniferous forest
- D. mangrove forest
The factor that best explains the large concentration of population in Java is?
- A. fertile soils
- B. large mineral deposits
- C. nearness to the sea
- D. industrial agglomeration
Most warm ocean currents flow
- A. in tropical seas
- B. from the Equator
- C. to the Equator
- D. in high latitudes
Ocean currents flow in a clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere but in an anticlockwise direction in he southern hemisphere because of the?
- A. rotation of the earth from east to west
- B. strong and more persistent winds in the southern hemisphere
- C. company active currents in the northern hemisphere
- D. rotation of the earth from west coast
The predominant process of weathering in desert regions is
- A. biological
- B. chemical
- C. erosional
- D. physical
The block mountain is formed as a result of
- A. fissure
- B. differential erosion
- C. vulcanicity
- D. faulting