Urban settlements mainly engage in?

A. primary economic activities

B. secondary economic activities

C. tertiary economic activities

D. quaternary economic activities

Lagos Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong and Calabar are cities which have attained considerable importance because they?

A. are cross roads to international airlines

B. have seaports

C. are densely populated

D. are administrative capitals

Which of the following arranges the settlement types in descending order in terms of complexity of functions?

A. Metropolis, city, town, village and hamlet

B. Metropolis, town, city, hamlet and village

C. Metropolis, city, village and hamlet and village

D. Hamlet, village, town, city and metropolis

Which of the following economic activities are classified as primary?

A. Farming, transportation, fishing and manufacturing

B. Lumbering, banking, transportation and farming

C. Fishing, lumbering, farming and mining

D. Mining, trading, farming and lumbering

When manufacturing enterprises produces goods which form raw materials for other enterprises, it is referred to as?

A. value added

B. sub-contracting

C. forward linkage

D. backward linkage

Most less developed nations are trade debtors because?

A. of their continuous link with colonial masters

B. of the gross inbalance in international trade

C. they import manufactured goods from industrialized nations

D. their currencies are weak

Large-scale wheat production is associated with the?

A. Kano Plains and Ghezira plains

B. Ghezira Plains and Pampas of Argentina

C. Praires of North America and the Pampas of Argentina

D. Ganges Plains and the Pampas of Argentina

Liberia, Malaysia and Indonesia are known for the production of?

A. cocoa

B. rubber

C. coffee

D. tea

The major means of transportation of goods from the Rhine industrial region to other European cities is by?

A. waterways

B. road

C. air

D. rail

The Mediterranean fruits are exported mainly to Western Europe rather than Africa because?

A. Africa produces more fruits than the Mediterranean region

B. Europe is closer to the Mediterranean than most parts of Africa

C. transport facilities between Africa and Western Europe are better

D. there is higher demand for fruit in Western than in Africa