JAMB UTME - Geography - 1978

Which one of the following countries has an export trade which is dominated by a single mineral?

Which of the following phenomena is not directly related to the revolution of the earth?

Which of the following pairs best accounts for the importance of Ere? 1. Road junction. 2. Industries 3. Commerce 4. River Ere.

Which of the following factors least explains the fast growing population in Africa?

The greatest volume of shipping across the Atlantic Ocean is

Which of the following currents has a warming influence upon the coast along which it flows?

Inter-regional trade between countries in West Africa is promoted mainly by

Which statement is NOT true of the middle belt in Nigeria?

Which of the following zones is the least industrialized in Nigeria?

The Middle Best of West Africa is NOT characterised by one of the following. Which one?

The scarcity of settlements on the eastern half of the area is probably due to

Which of the following type of agriculture would you expect to find around a big city in an industrial society such as in Europe?

What is the most likely cause for the paucity of surface streams on the eastern half of the area?

In which of the following countries is commercial grain farming an important occupation?

Name the feature shown in the diagram above

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

Nigeria is the world's leading producer of

Two factors which promote rapid chemical weathering in the tropics are

Which is not exported by the Republic of South Africa?

Which of the following phrases best describes the entire area on the right bank of River Ere?

Which of the following lakes owes its origin mainly to faulting?

The length of a year is 365(1/4)days because that is the time it takes

On a population map of the world, all but one of the following appear generally as regions of low population density

Which of the following provides the best location for a bakery?

What is a typical farmer in the Sudan savannah of Nigeria most likely to be doing in June?

Which of the following has the highest mean annual rainfall?

How were the major mountain belts of the world produced?

Temperature is to isotherms as air pressure is to

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Give the most appropriate name for the feature P.

Which of the following groups of activities are most likely to be important in this area?

Pick out the incorrect statement

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?

When is the earth relative to the sun in the position shown in the diagram above?

Which ONE of the following statements about the railway lines of Africa is false?

Which of the following statements is not borne out by the pie graph?

Mixed farming implies

Estimate the highest of trigonometry station.

Name the most important industrial mineral of Ghana

What does subsistence agriculture mean?

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

If a map at a scale of 1:50,000 is reduced by half, what is the new scale of the map?

The wearing away of the sides and bottom of a river's channel is called

Which of the following towns is NOT a pre-colonial town?

Which of the following most accurately describe the climate of coast lands which are adjacent to cool ocean currents?

Which purpose is NOT served by the Kainji Dam?

Which of the following gradients is the steepest?

What is the angular bearing of settlement Dor from settlement can?

Which of the following factors must account for the rapid increase in world population during the twentieth century?

What is the Nile valley best known for?

Smooth oval hills composed mainly of boulders or glacial sands and gravels are known as