Jamb 1998 Geography Past Questions And Answers
The Tennessee Valley Authority can best be said to administer?
- A. a multi-purpose river basin development project
- B. an agricultural generation project
- C. an electricity power generation project
- D. a flood control project
The leading producers of diamond in Africa are?
- A. Ghana amd Zambia
- B. Namibia and Botswana
- C. Botswana and sierra Leone
- D. South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo
The high cost of lumbering operations in tropical forests is mainly due to?
- A. shortage of labour
- B. absence of many rivers
- C. absence of pure stands of trees
- D. low quality of available timber
Two major causes of environmental population in the Niger Delta are?
- A. oil blowout and gas flaring
- B. road construction and pipe laying
- C. deforestation and water pollution
- D. creek erosion and waste dumping
Recent space explorations indicate that the other planet of the solar system with the possibility of having had life-supporting conditions in the past is?
- A. Pluto
- B. Mercury
- C. Mars
- D. Jupiter
The group of towns most important for automobile manufacturing is?
- A. Osaka, Kaduna and London
- B. Detroit, Tokyo and Turin
- C. New York, Los Angeles and Lagos
- D. Nagoya, Cairo and Moscow
If the distance between two points on a map with scale 1 : 50 000 is 35 mm, what is the distance between them on the ground.
- A. 1.50 km
- B. 1.55 km
- C. 1.75 km
- D. 1.85 km
In Nigeria, geographical location poses the greatest hindrance to economic development in the?
- A. Eastern Scarplands
- B. Eastern Highlands
- C. Western Highlands
- D. Niger-Benue Trough
A concentration of dwellings built on land neither owned nor rented by the builders is termed?
- A. rural settlement
- B. urban settlement
- C. squatter settlement
- D. dispersed settlement
In which of the following types of vegetation would cork oak and Aleppo pine be found?
- A. Savannah woodland
- B. Temperate rain forest
- C. Monsoon forest
- D. Mediterranean woodland

