Geography Past Questions And Answers
The difference in time between two longitudes is approximately
- A. 15 hours
- B. 4 hours
- C. 40 minutes
- D. 4 minutes
Use the diagram below to answer the question that follows: The textual class that can hold the greatest amount of moisture is

- A. sand
- B. sand loam
- C. clay loam
- D. clay
In which of the following groups of countries has heavy concentration of population been made possible by irrigation along fertile river valleys in an otherwise arid environment?
- A. Egypt, Ethiopia, India
- B. Egypt, Nambia , Somalia
- C. Egypt, Iran, Iraq
- D. Egypt, Chile,Australia
Which of the following represents an increasing order in the size of settlement?
- A. isolated farmstead-hamlet-village-town
- B. town-village-hamlet-isolated farmstead
- C. isolated farmstead-village-hamlet-town
- D. hamlet-village-town-isolated farmstead
Which of the following planets has the longest orbit around the sun?
- A. Saturn
- B. Venus
- C. Mars
- D. Neptune
The greatest environmental problem around Nkalagu and Ewekoro is?
- A. man-madelakes
- B. air pollution
- C. land subsidence
- D. water pollution
The ocean that connects Europe and America is the__________
- A. Indian ocean
- B. Antarctic ocean
- C. Atlantic ocean
- D. Artic ocean
Settlements can be classified according to all the following except
- A. arrangement of the buildings
- B. number of people per settlement
- C. main occupation of the inhabitants
- D. number of buildings per unit area and land
Which of the following distinguishes rotation from revolution?
- A. Revolution causes day and night while rotation causes season
- B. Rotation causes variation in the lengths of day and night while revolution causes rising and falling of tides
- C. A complete revolution takes 24 hours while rotation makes a year
- D. The earth rotates on its axis while it revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit
The soil type that is predominant in the Niger-Benue trough is?
- A. sandy
- B. clayey
- C. alluvial
- D. loamy

