JAMB UTME - Geography - 1978
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Which ONE of the following statements about the railway lines of Africa is false?
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A World Title Boxing contest took place in New York (75°W time zone) on a Tuesday between 21:30 and 22:30 Hours and was televised live. When did viewers in Lagos (15°E time zone) watch the contest live on television?
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Which of the following phenomena is not directly related to the revolution of the earth?
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What is the angular bearing of settlement Dor from settlement can?
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Which of the following statements is not borne out by the pie graph?
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Which of the following most accurately describe the climate of coast lands which are adjacent to cool ocean currents?
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The length of a year is 365(1/4)days because that is the time it takes
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What is the most likely cause for the paucity of surface streams on the eastern half of the area?
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Which of the following has the highest mean annual rainfall?
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Which of the following factors must account for the rapid increase in world population during the twentieth century?
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Which of the following currents has a warming influence upon the coast along which it flows?
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Which one of the following countries has an export trade which is dominated by a single mineral?
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Which is not exported by the Republic of South Africa?
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The Middle Best of West Africa is NOT characterised by one of the following. Which one?
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How were the major mountain belts of the world produced?
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Which of the following type of agriculture would you expect to find around a big city in an industrial society such as in Europe?
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Smooth oval hills composed mainly of boulders or glacial sands and gravels are known as
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On a population map of the world, all but one of the following appear generally as regions of low population density
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Which of the following pairs best accounts for the importance of Ere? 1. Road junction. 2. Industries 3. Commerce 4. River Ere.
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The wearing away of the sides and bottom of a river's channel is called
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Which of the following factors least explains the fast growing population in Africa?
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Estimate the highest of trigonometry station.
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The scarcity of settlements on the eastern half of the area is probably due to
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Name the climate represented by the data
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Temp o C 14 17 23 28 33 34 31 30 29 26 20 15
Rain mm 23 18 13 18 13 74 180 174 117 10 3 10
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Which statement is NOT true of the middle belt in Nigeria?
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Which of the following groups of activities are most likely to be important in this area?
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When is the earth relative to the sun in the position shown in the diagram above?
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Which pair of activities would you NOT find in an equatorial climate?
1. commercial grain farming. 2. rice cultivation. 3. lumbering. 4. plantation agriculture. 5. dry farming
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Two factors which promote rapid chemical weathering in the tropics are
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In which of the following countries is commercial grain farming an important occupation?
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Which of the following phrases best describes the entire area on the right bank of River Ere?
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Inter-regional trade between countries in West Africa is promoted mainly by
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If a map at a scale of 1:50,000 is reduced by half, what is the new scale of the map?
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The greatest volume of shipping across the Atlantic Ocean is
