Jamb Geography Past Questions For Year 1978
Question 41
Which of the following lakes owes its origin mainly to faulting?
- A. Lake Chad
- B. Lake Superior
- C. Lake Malawi
- D. Lake Victoria
- E. lake Kariba
Question 42
On a population map of the world, all but one of the following appear generally as regions of low population density
- A. The hot deserts
- B. The Amazon forests
- C. Antarctica
- D. The island of Java
- E. The Canadian shield
Question 43
Smooth oval hills composed mainly of boulders or glacial sands and gravels are known as
- A. eskers
- B. drumlins
- C. moraines
- D. aretes
- E. pyramidal peaks
Question 44
Two factors which promote rapid chemical weathering in the tropics are
- A. high temperature and extreme aridity
- B. high temperature and low humidity
- C. low temperature and high humidity
- D. high temperature and high humidity
- E. high temperature and low rainfall
Question 45
The length of a year is 365(1/4)days because that is the time it takes
- A. the sun to revolve round its orbit
- B. the earth to rotate on its axis
- C. the moon to revolve once round the earth
- D. the sun to revolve once round the earch
- E. the earth to revolve once round the sun
