JAMB Geography 1980 Past Questions

The true bearing, to the nearest degree of the highest peak in the mapped area from the center of the bridge across River Obe is?

Ketegi settlement is typically a

The feature running across the middle of the mapped area from N.W TO S.E, on which most of the settlements are located, is a (an)

Which of these is not a likely reason why the only road on the mapped area runs along the elevated feature ?

A ship's radioed message on the high sea at 5.45pm was heard at Abidjan(5°W) at 11.15a.m on the same day.Find the position of the ship

What feature would you associate with a rejuvenated river?

The intensity of the sun's heat is not much in polar regions because

Which of the following is a correct pair?

Which of the following rocks is composed of the skeletons of microscopic sea plants and animals?

Annual rainfall is low and erratic.The vegetation is scanty,although temperature is generally high, yet the daily range of temperature is very high.
Which of the following is the climatic type described above?

Rain falls mainly during the warm summer months.Summer temperature rarely exceeds 18.3°C.Annual rainfall is often below 125cm.Which of these crops is most unlikely to do well in the area described above?

Which of these industries is usually located at the source of its major raw materials?

Which one of the following states of Nigeria is a major kola-nut producer?

Nigeria's new federal capital territory shares boundaries with four states.What are these states?

Which are three main export crops of Uganda?
1.Bananas 2.Coffee 3.Cotton 4.Groundnuts 5.Sugar 6.Cassava 7.Tobacco

Which of the following is the least important reason for promoting manufacturing industries by West African Nations?

Which of the geographical reasons below least supports the existence of ECOWAS?

Dodoma is to Tanzania as .........is to Nigeria

What is the cause of the double rainfall maximal in southern Nigeria?

Textile industries in Nigeria are characterized by the following features except one?

The following is a description of a type of climate:'very cold winters(-34°C or colder), hot summers (21°C); mean annual rainfall under 380mm,most of it occurring in summer'. To which of the following does the description relate?

which of the following features is NOT characteristics of a glaciated area?

Which one of the following terms give us the best general description of the relief of West Africa?

which of the following is the most important reasons why the highest densities of cattle in West Africa are to be found in the Sudan and Sahel Savannah zones?

which of the following countries have few resources and yet has develop industries tremendously?

Which among the following is a producer of coal?

Which of these is the least important advantage of the transcontinental railways in Europe and North-America?

Which of the following can be regarded as the backbone of a modern industrial economy?

A hinterland is?

very large in area but very low in population;which of the following countries fits this description best?

The industrial economy of South-Africa is NOT based on one of the following factors:

Volcanoes are considered a natural resource because of all but one of the following reason

which of these sets best arranges these settlement types in ascending order in terms of their complexity of function?

the great agricultural regions of the world includes all but one of these

which of these sea routes carries the heaviest traffic?

the Nigerian petroleum refineries are located at one of the following pairs of town?

Nigeria's proposed Iron and steel industry based on the direct reduction would be located at;

Vegetables are usually grown near markets or their places of consumption because?

Industries can be classified as either light or heavy.
Which of the following groups of industries can be classified as light?

From the above diagram, Brazil's contribution to the export of bananas is

Gross capital formation in Nigeria 1964-1973, what can be inferred from the histogram above?

Which of the following is the appropriate shape of the section from A to B? choose the correct answer from the options above

Identify the shaded natural region in the diagram

The ground distance along the river from the confluence of Rivers Obe and Opi to the bridge across River Obe is 5.5kilometres. What is the scale of the map in Representative Fraction?

Which one of the following states of Nigeria is a major cotton producer?

Which of these statements is true of Africa?

Explain the increasing importation of food to West Africa countries

Which one of the areas shaded on the world map above is not an area of high population?

Which of the following best interprets the scale "1cm represents 1km?

The climatic data shown above are for a representative station in one of the following climatic types?