Jamb Geography Past Questions For Year 1981
Question 36
Which of these statements about Africa is NOT true?
- A. Over two-thirds of Africa lies within the tropics, Africa is therefore a warm continent in which snowfall is everywhere unknown
- B. Africa has a high rate of population increase
- C. Africa is the least unbanized continent although urbanization started early in Africa
- D. The forest regions of Africa are richer in hardwood than softwood timber
- E. Africa has several large rivers but they are of very limited use for navigation
Question 37
Of the following regions, the one that has the highest potentiality for the production of softwood timber for manufacture of paper is the?
- A. Selva of Brazil
- B. equatorial forest of the Congo
- C. evergreen board-leaf forests of Japan
- D. temperate deciduous forests of France
- E. coniferous forest of Scandinavia
Question 38
Which of the following conditions leads to rapid population growth?
- A. A declining death rate and an increasing birth rate
- B. A low death rate and a low birth rate
- C. A declining death rate and a static birth rate
- D. An increasing death rate and a declining birth rate
- E. A declining death rate and rapid emigration
Question 39
Which of the following economic activities involves the use of machinery, much land, but few people?
- A. Commercial grain agriculture
- B. Commercial dairy agricuture
- C. Commercial gardening
- D. Nomadic herding
- E. Livestock ranching
Question 40
For which of the following pairs of economic activities is the Ukraine (in the U.S.S.R) famous
- A. Commercial grain agriculture and livestock ranching
- B. Commercial grain farming and industry
- C. Commercial gardening
- D. Fishing and lumbering
- E. Primitive subsistence agriculture and nomadic herding
