Year : 
1986
Title : 
Geography
Exam : 
JAMB Exam

Paper 1 | Objectives

21 - 30 of 50 Questions

# Question Ans
21.

Which of the following statements best characterizes the population of Southeast Asia?

A. High density and high growth rate

B. High density and low growth rate

C. Low density and High growth rate

D. Low density and low growth rate

A

22.

Large scale migration of people from one country to another may be explained by all of the following EXCEPT?

A. Drought

B. civil war

C. oppressive home government

D. higher standard of living in the host country

C

23.

In which of the following countries or regions is the high population density due to agricultural development?

A. The Midlands of England

B. China

C. Japan

D. The Ruhr

B

24.

Linear villages may be expected to develop?

A. in narrow valley floors

B. on flat plains

C. in thick forests

D. on deltas

A

25.

The process whereby a manufacturing enterprise produces goods which form raw materials for other manufacturing enterprises is referred to as?

A. value added

B. sub-contracting

C. forward linkage

D. backward linkage

C

26.

What is common to the Bororo tribe of West Africa, the Eskimos of Alaska and Canada, the Lapps of Eurasia and the Mongols of Mongolia?

A. Cattle rearing

B. Nomadic herding

C. Dispersed rural settlements

D. Hunting and trapping

D

27.

Which of the following areas is noted for the highest production of soft wood?

A. The Amazon Basin

B. The Ganges-Indus Basin

C. The St.Lawrence Basin

D. The Rhine Basin

C

28.

Which of the following countries is most dependent on international trade?

A. USSR

B. The people's Republic of China

C. Poland

D. Japan

D

29.

The inability of Nigerian farmers to adequately feed the nation is due mainly to the?

A. poor quality of the soil

B. low demand for agricultural products

C. shortage of agricultural land

D. poor methods of agricultural production

D

30.

Which of the following groups of environmental problems is commonly associated with mining activities?

A. Air pollution, floods and sandstorms

B. Deforestation, soil dessicated and heat wave

C. Oil-spillage, drought and land susidence

D. Soil ersion, sedimentation and land dereliction

D

21.

Which of the following statements best characterizes the population of Southeast Asia?

A. High density and high growth rate

B. High density and low growth rate

C. Low density and High growth rate

D. Low density and low growth rate

A

22.

Large scale migration of people from one country to another may be explained by all of the following EXCEPT?

A. Drought

B. civil war

C. oppressive home government

D. higher standard of living in the host country

C

23.

In which of the following countries or regions is the high population density due to agricultural development?

A. The Midlands of England

B. China

C. Japan

D. The Ruhr

B

24.

Linear villages may be expected to develop?

A. in narrow valley floors

B. on flat plains

C. in thick forests

D. on deltas

A

25.

The process whereby a manufacturing enterprise produces goods which form raw materials for other manufacturing enterprises is referred to as?

A. value added

B. sub-contracting

C. forward linkage

D. backward linkage

C

26.

What is common to the Bororo tribe of West Africa, the Eskimos of Alaska and Canada, the Lapps of Eurasia and the Mongols of Mongolia?

A. Cattle rearing

B. Nomadic herding

C. Dispersed rural settlements

D. Hunting and trapping

D

27.

Which of the following areas is noted for the highest production of soft wood?

A. The Amazon Basin

B. The Ganges-Indus Basin

C. The St.Lawrence Basin

D. The Rhine Basin

C

28.

Which of the following countries is most dependent on international trade?

A. USSR

B. The people's Republic of China

C. Poland

D. Japan

D

29.

The inability of Nigerian farmers to adequately feed the nation is due mainly to the?

A. poor quality of the soil

B. low demand for agricultural products

C. shortage of agricultural land

D. poor methods of agricultural production

D

30.

Which of the following groups of environmental problems is commonly associated with mining activities?

A. Air pollution, floods and sandstorms

B. Deforestation, soil dessicated and heat wave

C. Oil-spillage, drought and land susidence

D. Soil ersion, sedimentation and land dereliction

D