Past Questions And Answers
(a)(i) Define vegetative propagation. [2 marks]
(ii) Give three advantages and three disadvantages of vegetative propagation. [6 marks]
(b) State four cultural methods used for controlling crop pests in the field. [4 marks]
(c) Enumerate four harmful effects of chemical pest control. [4 marks]
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2011 THEORY(a) Complete the table below.
Weed | Botanical name | Method of dispersal |
Goat weed | ||
Siam weed | ||
Water leaf |
(b) Listthree examples ofeach of the following factors affecting land availability for
agriculture:
(i) physical factors;
(ii) economic factors.
(c) Enumeratefour effects of pollution on agricultural lands and ponds.
(d) Statetwo ways of minimizing land and pond pollution.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 THEORYWhich of the following best accounts for the decline in the importance of rail transport in Africa?
- A. High competition from road transport
- B. Low volume of goods available for transportation
- C. Threat of retrenchment of railway workers
- D. Short distances covered by railways
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'Withering, burn, ghost, a scatter, dusty, half-bare
The above combination of words from Kwesi Brew's
'The Dry Season' thematically suggests
- A. destruction
- B. confusion
- C. desolation
- D. death
HAIR: TOUPEE
- A. Thumb: hand
- B. Eye: eyebrow
- C. Teeth: denture
- D. Wound: bandage
__________ had Christ's body placed in his own tomb.
- A. Simon of Cyrene
- B. Joseph of Judea
- C. Pontius Pilate
- D. Joseph of Arimathea
What is the primary function of the reproductive system in farm animals?
- A. Digestion of food
- B. Reproduction and propagation of the species
- C. Production of milk for offspring
- D. Maintenance of body temperature
This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
One of the universal themes of the novel is the
- A. selfishness of man against his own enviroment
- B. relationship between man and nature
- C. great struggle between the old man and the fish
- D. connection of the sea to human greed
Sources of air pollutants are
- A. industrial chimneys, burning fossil oils and river dam
- B. sulphur dioxide, acid rain and pesticides
- C. sulphur mines, vehicle exhausts and aerosols
- D. sewage, smoke and old vehicle
'''My spirit shall not abide in man forever for he is flesh....'' When God made the statement, the He concluded that man's days shall be
- A. one hundred years
- B. one hundred and fifty years
- C. eight years
- D. one hundred and twenty years