Jamb Geography Past Questions and Answers

Question 196:

• JAMB 1980

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

A. Land and sea breezes
B. Nearness to the atlantic ocean
C. Overhead sun at the tropic of Cancer
D. North and South movement of the overhead sun
E. Overhead sun on the equator

Question 197:

• JAMB 1980

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

A. Full automation
B. Import substitution
C. Labour intensive
D. Market oriented
E. Raw material oriented

Question 198:

• JAMB 1980

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?

A. Tropical continental
B. Tropical monsoon
C. Temperate western margin
D. Temperate continental
E. Temperate eastern margin

Question 199:

• JAMB 1980

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

A. Hanging valleys
B. Aretes
C. Interlocking spurs
D. U-shaped valleys
E. Fjords

Question 200:

• JAMB 1980

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

A. Swamps and low lands
B. Hills and mountain
C. Scarp slopes and deep slopes
D. Plain and plateaux
E. Flood plains