Jamb Geography Past Questions For Year 1978
Question 21
Which purpose is NOT served by the Kainji Dam?
- A. provision of research facilities
- B. provision of water of domestic use all over Nigeria
- C. provision of fishing facilities
- D. generation of electricity for use all over Nigeria
- E. provision of recreational facilities
Question 22
What does subsistence agriculture mean?
- A. Intensive agriculture
- B. Extensive agriculture
- C. Agricultural production for cash
- D. Agricultural production for export
- E. Agricultural production for household consumption
Question 23
Which of the following factors must account for the rapid increase in world population during the twentieth century?
- A. The slave trade was abolished
- B. Death rates have decreased rapidly
- C. Birth rates have increased rapidly
- D. Increasing world production of food
- E. Large-scale migration of people
Question 24
How were the major mountain belts of the world produced?
- A. By wind erosion
- B. By Folding
- C. By glacial erosion
- D. By weathering
- E. By river deposition
Question 25
Which of the following most accurately describe the climate of coast lands which are adjacent to cool ocean currents?
- A. summer rain, winter drought
- B. winter rain, summer drought
- C. rain all the year round
- D. monsoon rainfall pattern
- E. aridity
