Jamb 1998 Geography Past Questions And Answers

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1

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
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2

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
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3

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
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4

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
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5

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
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6

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
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7

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
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8

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
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9

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
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10

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
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