Geography Past Questions And Answers
1511
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Wadis?
- A. They are river channels
- B. They occur in tropical areas
- C. They hold permanent streams
- D. They have steep craggy walls
1512
The dominant foreign exchange earner of Senegal is
- A. tourism
- B. groundnut
- C. fish
- D. iron-ore
1513
In a karst topography, the visible features on the landscape include?
- A. sinkhole
- B. tunnel
- C. stalactite
- D. stalagmite
1514
One outstanding benefit of lumbering to an economy is that it
- A. leads to depletion of forest
- B. earns foreign exchange
- C. leads to soil erosion
- D. causes flooding
1515
Which of the following economic activities are classified as primary?
- A. Farming, transportation, fishing and manufacturing
- B. Lumbering, banking, transportation and farming
- C. Fishing, lumbering, farming and mining
- D. Mining, trading, farming and lumbering
1516
Which of the following does not prove that the earth is spherical in shape?
- A. tilting of the earth on its axis
- B. the curved horizon of the earth
- C. the eclipse of the moon
- D. aerial photograph of the earth taken by astronauts
1517
Loss of farmlands can be attributed to all the following except
- A. desertification
- B. gully erosion
- C. laterization
- D. sedimentation
1518
Four major ocean currents washing the shores of Africa are the?
- A. Canaries, Benguela, Kurosiwo and Mozambique
- B. Canaries, Guinea ,Mid-Atlantic and Benguela
- C. Guinea, Equatorial, Mozambique and Benguela
- D. Canaries, Guinea, Benguela and Mozambique
1519
The largest producer of gold in West Africa is
- A. Nigeria
- B. The Gambia
- C. Sierra Leone
- D. Ghana
1520
If the time is 10.00am in Belfast(longitude 60°W), the time at Leningrad(longitude 30°E) will be
- A. 4.00 am
- B. 12.00 noon
- C. 4.00 pm
- D. 6.00 pm