Jamb 1993 Geography Past Questions And Answers
The greatest obstacles to regional economic cooperation in ECOWAS are?
- A. transportation, different currencies and colonial heritage
- B. population distribution, ethnicity and illiteracy
- C. political instability, smuggling and high tarriffs
- D. regional inequality, low productivity and poor communication
If the distance between two points on a map with scale 1: 50 000 is 28mm, what is the distance between them on the ground?
- A. 5.6 km
- B. 2.8km
- C. 1.4km
- D. 0.7km
Which of the following countries can be described as an archipelago?
- A. Mauritania
- B. Nigeria
- C. The Gambia
- D. Cape Verde
The approximate height of the rest house north-east of Jeta is
- A. 30m
- B. 40m
- C. 45m
- D. 50m
Which of the following are associated with the lower course of a river?
- A. Gorge, rapids and waterfalls
- B. Corrasion, corrosion and attrition
- C. Floodplains, ox-bow lakes and deltas
- D. Meanders, cliff and spurs
In most of West Africa countries, the primary purpose of establishing the railway system was to?
- A. transport export goods to the coast
- B. distribute locally produce commodities
- C. provide cheap means of moving passengers
- D. supplement river transport
Which of the following explains the variation in the lengths of day and night with the seasons?
- A. Earth's rotation on its axis
- B. Earth's revolution along its orbit
- C. The inclination of the earth
- D. the sperical shape of the earth
Which of the following factors account for the traffic on Africa rivers? 1. Availability of cheaper means of transport 2. Seasonal fluctuations of river flow. 3. Pressure of water falls and rapids. 4. Rivers flowing through sparsely populated areas.
- A. 1 and 2
- B. 2 and 3
- C. 1 and 4
- D. 3 and 4
Which of the following shipping routes carries the world's heavies ocean traffic?
- A. Panama Canal West Coast U.S.A.
- B. Eastern North America Western Europe
- C. Mediterranean Suez Canal India Ocean
- D. Western Europe Southern Africa Australia
Which of the following contributes LEAST to the generation and movement of ocean surface currents?
- A. wind friction
- B. temperature differences
- C. ocean salinity
- D. earth rotation