SS 3 GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) HomeWAEC/NECO Exam Past QuestionsSS 3 GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) 0% SSCE/NECO/GCE (GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS) GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS APP Questions will be picked at random from the question bank. You can use the NEXT button to move to the next question, use the PREV button to move to the previous question, the CLEAR button to clear any answer of your choice and you have the FINISH button to end the exam if you choose to. Any question not answered before the end of the exam time, will be marked as wrong and the exam will end by itself. so try to attempt all questions on time. Goodluck! 1 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is a product of chemical weathering? Scree Exfoliation dome Grike Stack 2 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The monthly range of temperature is the total daily temperatures for the month divided by 30 average of the highest and lowest daily temperatures for the month sum of the daily temperature readings for the month differences between the highest and lowest daily tempareture for the month 3 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following human actves has a beneficial effect on soils? Grazing Slopewise cultivation Bush burning Strip cultivation 4 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS A study of the ecosystem will show the inter-relationship between climate and vegetation vegetation and soils man and the environment man and natural vegetation 5 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The planet with the longest orbit around the sun is The Earth Jupiter Pluto Mars 6 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which if the following crops below requires the following conditions for successful cultivation? i. Heavy rainfall of between 1270mm (50 ins) and 2000mm (80 ins) during the 4 to 6 months growing periods. ii. High mean temperature of 18° to 27°C (65° to 80°F) no cold season. iii. A warm, dry period for harvesting. iv. Loamy or clayey soil and an almost level ground. v. Cheap and abundant labour. Rice Cocoa Maize Cotton 7 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Salinity is mainly dependent on I. evaporation II. the amount of fresh water added III. ocean currents IV winds I and II only II and IV only I, II and III only II and III only 8 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Bush fallowing ensures that only one crop is cultivated at a time modern agricultural machinery are used artificial fertilizers are used the land regains its fertility naturally 9 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Textiles industries are best located in the northern part of Nigeria because of the availability of heavy machinery availability of capital high demand for cotton materials availability of cotton 10 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Lines of longitude can best be described as imaginary lines on the earth's surface joining the north and south poles the distance of a place east or west of the Greenwich Meridian the angular distance of a place north or south of the Equator great circles numbered from 0 degrees to 90 degrees 11 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following favours the growth of olives in the Mediterranean region of Africa? High temperature and humidity Heavy rainfall Abundant supply of skilled labour Cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers 12 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not important in defining soil? Colour Texture Permeability Capillary water 13 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following pair is not correct in the development of land and sea breeze? Temperature wiyh thermometer Rainfall with raingauge Pressure with anemometer Humidity with hydrometer 14 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Rock pedestals are most likely to found in? arid areas where wind abrasion has modified rocks of reisitance regions where river erosion has taken place region where wave hydraulic action has taken ace arid area where wond deflation has scooped out the suraface 15 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which if the following minerals is most likely to be absent in a region consisting mainly of igneous and metamorphic rocks? Tin Copper Coat Gold 16 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Jos experiences a moderate temperature compared with other places on the same latitude in Nigeria because it receives relief rain most of the time lies at the convergence of two different air masses is on a high altitude is close to the River Niger which exerts some moderating influence on its weather 17 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Rocks which do not allow water to pass through them are impermeable rocks pervious rocks porous rocks impervious rocks 18 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Isothermal maps give information about? temperature pressure wind rainfall 19 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following combinations of processes is associated with the formation of a rift valley? (i)Tension or compression forces (ii)Resistance and faulting (iii)Emergence of the middle crust of rocks (iv) Submergence of the middle crust of rocks ii, iii and iv only i, ii and iii only i, ii and iv only i, iii and iv only 20 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The world's highest population growth rates are recorded by countries that have cool climates produce inadequate food produce surplus food are technologyically developed 21 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following Nigeria rivers provides the longest distance of internal waterways? Ogun Siluko Benue Cross 22 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Loss of farmland can be contributed to all the following except? sedimentation leaching desertification sheet erosion 23 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not typical submarine relief feature? Roche moutonnee Continental slope Continental shelf Deep sea plain 24 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS A daily mean temperature of about 24oC, an annual rainfall of about 500mm which should fall in the growing period of about five months, and well-drained soils. These are the requirements for cultivation of sugarcane groundnut coffee soya bean 25 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS All the following are characteristics of a limestone region except? rugged topography adequate luxuriant vegetation cover stony and broken surface absence of surface drainage 26 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS When it is 9:00am in Munich, Germany(longitude 11°E), the time in Calcutta, India (longitude 96°E). is? 2.40a.m 5.40a.m 2.40p.m 4.20a.m 27 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The soil in a typical natural rainforest remains fertile and suitable for arable agriculture because? there is abundant supply of sunshine and rainfall which leach the soil the soil nutrient is continously being replenished y the decay of the dense undergrowth and fallen leaves there is absence of plant cover the vegetation is luxuriant 28 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The greatest hydro-electricity potential in Nigeria is found in the Niger Benue Trough Sokoto plains Eastern highlands Cross-River Basin 29 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS When a plateau is enclosed by fold mountains it is alled a volcanic plateau a tectonic pleteau a dissected pleteau an intermont pleteau 30 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS What is the local time of a place on longitude 640E ? when the GMT is 10.00a .m? 4.16 p.m 2.16 a.m 2.16 p.m 5.44 a.m 31 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Air pressure at sea levels is higher than at the top of mountain because the air at sea level has a lesser weight consists of a leser mixture of gases has a greater weight originates from the sea 32 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The angular distance of a point of the earth surface measured in degrees from the centre of the earth is known as? orbit longitude international date line latitude 33 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The term gauge in railway transport refers to the? measurement of gradient along the side slopes of the rails distance between rails of a track length of the rails in a country weight of vehicle that rails can bear 34 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not likely to be cultivated in the north-west of the river Yate valley is sugar beet millet rubber pineapple 35 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements is not correct? Basalts and granties contain small and large crystals respectively Rocks changed by great heat and pressure are known as metamorphic rocks Sedimentary rocks which are hardened by compressions are called stratified rocks Igneous rocks occur in layers and contain fossils 36 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Foliage is ever green with thin undergrowth,the leaves are small, thick, leathery and needle-shaped. This description is that of the? coniferous forest temperate woodland temperate grassland tropical rainforest 37 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The term relative location of a settlement refers to a settlement inhabited by relatives the position of a settlement in relation to others the nature of the land on which the settlement is located an imaginery point on the settlement 38 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following combinations can be regarded as sub-systems within the ecosystem? Hydrogical cycle, mineral nutrient cycle, evironmental controls Ecosystem controls, food chain, hydrological cycle Food chain, hydrological cycle, mineral nutrient cycle Mineral nutrient cycle, hygrological cycle, ecosystem controls 39 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Residual mountains are those caused by vulcanicity denudation faulting residue 40 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The liquid portion of the earth may be referred to as the biosphere atmospere lithosphere hydroshere 41 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The instrument used for recording the direction of the prevailing wind of a place over a period of one month is called? a wind vane an anemometer speedomoter a wind rose 42 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS A good example of the tropical grassland is the vegetation found around Kano (Nigeria) Massawa (Ethiopia) Buenos Aires (Argentina) Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) 43 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following best explains why the older fold mountains are much lower and less rugged than the newer ones? The newer fold mountains, in contrast to the older ones, are made up of more resistance rocks The newer fold mountains are situated in areas of active earth movements The older fold mountains have been subjectd to the forces of denudation for longer, geological periods The effects of earth movements resulting in mountain building are much greater nowadays than they were during the period of folding 44 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following poses the greatest problem to agriculture in the north-estern part of Nigeria? Lack of mechanised tools Sparse farming population Land tenure system Desert encroachment 45 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements best explains the absence or sparcity of undergrowth in the equatorial rain forest? The taller trees cut off most of the sunlight There is too much precipitation which destroys the undergrowth Very little rain reaches the ground because of the dense vegetation Most of the precipitation is usually cleared by run-off after heavy thunderstorms 46 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Mass movement of weathered materials may be gradual or sudden depending on the I. gradient of the slope and gravitational force 11. weight of the weathered debris III. supply of lubricating moisture by rainwater coupled with gravitation force IV. type of weathering which has taken place l,ll and lll ll and lV only l and lV only l, ll and lV 47 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The use of water transport is limited by all the following except seasonality wide valleys floating vegetation waterfalls 48 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not an environmental hazard? Earthquake Sedimentation Flooding Deforestation 49 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS The South-eastern scarplands of Nigeria can best be described as lying south of the southern coastland west of the wester uplands north of the plateau of Chad basin west of the Cross River basin 50 / 50 Category: GEOGRAPHY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not being exported by Nigeria at present? Coffee Columbite Kaolin Cocoa Your score is 0% Restart quiz Practice also: SS 3 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST OF ORALS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 DATA PROCESSING PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO)