Correct Answer: C. have variable oxidation states

Explanation

(a)(i) Dispersed settlement: This form of settlement is made up of several houses which are scattered or dispersed in nature. One house may be up to one or more kilometres from the next. It is associated with rural farming and farmlands are usually behind buildings Farmlands are intensively tilled.

Dispersed settlements are mainly engaged in primary activities with few social amenities. It presents a quiet social life

(ii) Linear settlement This form of settlement stretches along physical features such as elongated escarpment, lakes, etc. It could be straight or curved communication lines along railways, roads, foot paths, etc. Linear settlement is mainly rural in nature which may constitute extension of towns on their outskirts It could be sublinear where roads meet and are of several kilometres in length.

Gardens are located behind the houses while farmlands exist behind gardens.

(b) Factores that favor the location of settlements

(i) Location at a river confluence, e.g Lokoja (Nigeria). Khartoun (Sudan) St Louis (USA)

(ii) Location at where a river is shallow or narrow. e.g Oxford (England), Paris (France), Rome (Italy)

(iii) Location at the exit or the entrance of gorges e.g. Bingen and Bonn (Germany)

(iv) Location at river bend or meander, e.g Telok Anson on tne Perak River Meander (Malaysia). Orleans on River Rhone (France)

(v) Location at where there is an Indentation on the coast line. eg Lagos (Nigeria), Freetown (Sierra Leone) RIO de Janeiro (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Tokyo (Japan)

(c) Functions of Urban Settlements

(i) Provides social services

(ii) Commercial functions

(iii) Provision of employment Serves and residential function

(v) Serves as administrative/political function (vi) Educational centres

(viii) Individual function

Correct Answer: C. Privatization

Correct Answer: B) Shion and Og

Explanation

During the conquest of Jericho by the Israelites, two kings of Jericho were destroyed. The question is asking for the names of these two kings. The options provided are Adonija and Haggith, Shion and Og, Zadok and Benaiah, and Hiram and Jeroboam.

Option A, Adonija and Haggith, is incorrect as they were not the kings of Jericho. Option C, Zadok and Benaiah, is also incorrect as they were not kings of Jericho. Option D, Hiram and Jeroboam, is also incorrect as they were kings of Tyre and Israel respectively.

Option B, Shion and Og, is the correct answer. Shion was the king of a small city-state in southern Canaan and Og was the king of Bashan, a region east of the Jordan River.

It is worth noting that the conquest of Jericho is a significant event in the Old Testament. The Israelites were led by Joshua and they marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and on the seventh day, the walls collapsed, allowing the Israelites to conquer the city. The destruction of the two kings of Jericho was part of this conquest.

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Correct Answer: A. tapping the huge reserves of underground water

Correct Answer: C. astonished

Correct Answer: D. to hear

Correct Answer: D. adoption

Correct Answer: B. 5

Explanation

mean \(=\frac{1+3+4+8+8+4+7}{7}=\frac{35}{7}=5\)

Correct Answer: D. 9

Explanation

Average speed = \(\frac{Distance}{Time}\)

\(\frac{400km}{hr} = \frac{60km}{Time}\)

Time = \(\frac{60km}{400 km/hr}\)

= \(\frac{60hr}{400}\)

M = \(\frac{60hr}{400} \times \frac{60min}{1hr}\)

= 9 minutes