Jamb Geography Past Questions For Year 1983
Question 16
Adiabatic cooling' is the cooling of rising air as a result of?
- A. increase altitude
- B. expansion and internal loss of heat
- C. movement on the windward side of mountains
- D. instability
- E. advection
Question 17
The sea with the highest degree of salinity in the world is the?
- A. Caspian Sea
- B. Dead Sea
- C. Mediterranean Sea
- D. Baltic Sea
- E. Red Sea
Question 18
Which of the following types of vegetable is characterized by acidic soils?
- A. Steppe
- B. Sahel savanna
- C. Coniferous forest
- D. Temperate grassland
- E. Desert
Question 19
Which of the following major soils types is found in the Savannah areas of Nigeria?
- A. Podzols
- B. Ferralitic red soils
- C. Chernozems
- D. Ferruginous tropical soils
- E. Brown earths
Question 20
The term 'catena' describes the?
- A. effect of topography on soil series
- B. sequence of modified soil along a slope profile
- C. changes in soil fertility along a slope profile
- D. group of soil on sedimentary rocks
- E. colour differences in soils along slope profile
