Geography Past Questions And Answers
(a) Give three reasons why air transportation may be preferred to the other modes of transportation
(b) State any three disadvantages of air transportation
(c) How can these disadvantages be overcome?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1996 THEORY(a) State three ways in which human activities affect the composition of the atmosphere
(b) Describe the physical changes that are likely to be associated with the increasing reduction of the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1999 THEORYIn many areas, limestone rocks are resistant to water erosion on their surfaces and form uplands because of their
- A. coarse and resistant minerals
- B. low porosity and permeability
- C. dense and armophous structure
- D. joints and pervious nature
Weber's theory of industrial location was based on?
- A. nearness to market
- B. nearness to raw materials
- C. nearness to source of power
- D. least transport cost
Shifting cultivation in agriculture involves?
- A. intensive cultivation in a highly populated region
- B. cultivating alternative plots to allow natural regeneration
- C. cultivating food crops on subsistence basis
- D. cultivating cash crops principally for export
Local farmers determine the change in fertility of any tropical soil through the
- A. nature of the surface
- B. amount of water in the soil
- C. variation in yeld from crops growth
- D. colour of the soil
Lines joining places with same mean annual rainfall are called___________
- A. isohyets
- B. isohels
- C. isohalines
- D. isotherms
The variation in the volume of water in a river over time is known as its?
- A. regime
- B. discharge
- C. fluctuation
- D. velocity
Four ways in which a river transports its load are?
- A. corrosion, saltation, solution and suspension
- B. saltation, solution, suspension and traction
- C. attrition, saltation, solution and suspension
- D. corrosion, attrition, suspension and traction
Sandstone can be classified as?
- A. argillaceous
- B. calcareous
- C. carbonaceous
- D. aranaceous