THIRD TERM
SUBJECT: GEOGRAPHY CLASS: SS 2 DURATION ; 2HRS
Answer all questions in section A and any 11. The annual range of temperature for the
other four in section B. No 1 is compulsory. station is (a) 6oC (b) 9oC (c) 11oC (d)
Month J F M A M J J A S O N D
SECTION A : Study the
Temp 22 22 23 24 28 30 31 31 29 30 24 24
map of OGBA district and (oC)
use it to answer questions Rainfall 325 52 13 225 270 310 354 416 22 31.0 11 02.1
1-10 2 1
12oC
1. The scale of the map in representative 12. Which of the following pairs of weather
fraction is (a) 1:25,000 (b) 1:50,000 (c) instrument were used to collect the data
1:100,000 (d) 1:200,000 for the station? (a) a rainguage and an
2. The direction of Ohewo from Ipiga is anemometer (b) a wind vane and
(a) North East (b) South-West (c) North thermometer (c) a thermometer and a rain
west (d) South- East guage (d) a barometer and a rainguage
3. Which of the following is a confluence 13. Eclipse of the moon occurs when the (a)
town? (a) Ohewo (b) Oju (c) Ipoya (d) earth comes between the moon and the
piga sun (b) sun comes between the earth and
4. Which of the following crops is likely to the moon (c) moon comes between the
be cultivated in the area liable to sun and the earth (d) earth and the moon
flooding? (a) rice (b) yam (c) cocoa (d) move on parallel lines
groundnut 14. If the local time is 3.30pm is station X
5. The feature marked X can be described as on longitude 20oE, hat is the time in
(a) an ox-bow lake (b) a meander (c) station Y on longitude 100W? (a)
spur (d) col 1.10pm (b) 2.20pm (c) 2.15pm (d)
6. The direction of flow of river pam is (a) 4.05pm
North-west (b) north-east (c) south-west 15. Metamorphic rocks are (a) rocks
(d) south –east transformed under great heat and
7. The likely occupation of the people of pressure (b) formed by cooling and
Ipiga is ____(a) fishing (b) farming (c) solidification of molten magna (c)
mining (d) lumbering mechanically formed rocks (d) stratified
8. The settlement of Ipoya can be described rocks
as (a) linear (b) clustered (c) nucleated 16. A plateau closed by fold mountains is
(d) dispersed called (a) an interment plateau (b) a
9. The feature marked A-B can best be volcanic plateau (c) a basaltic plateau (d)
described as (a) concave slope (b) scarp a continental plateau
slope (c) dip slope (d) convex slope 17. A fog is most likely to develop when a
10. The bearing of Ohewo from Adum is (a) cold dry wind blows over a cold
approximately (a) 225o (b) 265o (c) current (b) warm moist wind blows over
270o (d) 275o Ohewo a cold current (c) cold dry wind blows
over a warm current (d) warm moist
wind blows over a warm current
18. The instrument used for measuring
atmospheric pressure is (a) wind vane
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(b) anemometer (c) barometer (d) wet materials reached from the top soil (b)
bulb thermometer well-drained soils mixed with humus (c)
19. Humidity is the amount of _______(a) parent materials that produce mineral
cloud cover in the sky (b) water vapour particles of the soil (d) weathered
in the atmosphere (c) moisture needed to materials from parent rocks
cause condensation (d) mist in the 29. The ability of a river to transport its
atmosphere loads depends on all the following except
20. Convectional rains are most common in the (a) size of the load (b) velocity of
(a) equatorial regions and tropical flow (c) temperature of the water (d)
monsoon climates (b) polar regions and volume of water
Mediterranean climate (c) temperature 30. Settlements in which building are
regions (d) temperate and Mediterranean arranged along roads, railways or rivers
climate are (a) nodal settlement (b) nucleated
21. Rock which have been formed by the settlement (c) linear settlements (d)
cooling and solidification of molten commercial settlements
magma are called (a) igneous rocks (b) 31. A soil profile refers to the (a) shape of
sedimentary rocks (c) conglomerates (d) the soil (b) vertical section of the soil
metamorphic rocks (c) mineral composition of the soil (d)
22. Which of the following is not a type of zone of eluviation
mountains? (a) conical mountain (b) 32. The trees are evergreen, forming a
block mountain (c) fold mountain (d) canopy with buttress not, climbers and
mountain of accumulation creepers which of the following
23. Which of the following is not a vegetation types does this statement
characteristic of sedimentary rock? They refers to? (a) savanna (b) rainforest (c)
are (a) contain fossils (b) are crystalline swamp forest (d) Sahel savanna
(c) are usually laid down in layers (d) 33. The ocean that connects Europe and
are porous America is the (a) Indian ocean (b)
24. The difference between rate of heating Antantic ocean (c) Atlantic ocean (d)
and cooling over land and sea commonly Arctic ocean
results in the formation of (a) land and 34. The most common mode of transportation
sea breezes (b) land breese (c) sea in Nigeria is (a) air (b) rail (c) ocean
breeze (d) extreme of tides (d) road
25. The current that washes the south west 35. The longest river in Nigeria is (a) Nile
coast of Africa is the (a) Bengualla (b) Benue (c) Niger (d) Senegal
current (b) Conary current (c) Peruvian 36. The following ethnic groups are found in
current (d) Mozambique current Nigeria except the (a) Fulani (b) Igbo
26. The peeling off of successive thin layers (c) Yoruba (d) Masai
of boulders as a result of alternative 37. Rail transport is best suited for (a) short
heating and cooling of the rock surface is distance travels (b) carrying bulky goods
called (a) attrition (b) exfoliation (c) (c) carrying goods of high unit value (d)
frost action (d) abrasion carrying light weight goods
27. Which of the following is not a component 38. The main agricultural product of western
of a mature soil? (a) metallic ores (b) part of Nigeria is (a) cocoa (b) palm oil
decayed organic matter (c) water (d) air (c) cotton (d) groundnut
28. The C-horizon of mature land tropical 39. One major problem that affects cocoa
soil consists of (a) accumulation of production in Nigeria is the (a)
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inadequate market for cocoa (b) excess SECTION B: Answer questions 3 questions in all
demand for cocoa in the worlds market
1. Explain how each of the following proves
(c) low rate of local consumption of
that the earth is spherical?
cocoa (d) fluctuations in the price of
cocoa at the world market i. Circumnavigation (2mks) (ii) Eclipse
40. The highest elevation in Nigeria lies on (2mks (iii) sunrise and sunset (2mks)
the (a) Adamawa highlands (b) Shere
b. Calculate the distance between two
hills (c) idanre hill (d) Udi hills
locations on the earth surface whose
41. Liquid commodities are best transported
latitudes are 10oN and 17oN respectively
by (a) conveyor belt (b) air crafts (c)
(4mks)
pipe lines (d) motor cars
42. The part of soil that is formed from the 2a. Describe two types of mass wasting
remains of dead plants and trees is (4mks)
known as (a) clay (b) sand (c) loam (d)
humus b. Mention factors that can affect mass wasting
43. Which of the following areas is not c. state three effect of mass wasting (4mks)
noted for irrigation farming? (a) the
sokoto - Rima –valley (b) the lower volta SECTION C: Answer question no 1 and any
basin (c) the cross river basin (d0 the other one
lower Senegal valley 3a. on a sketch map of Nigeria locate and
44. The stripping of the surface layer if the name any four vegetation belts(4mks)
earth to remove minerals is known as (a)
adit mining (b) drilling (c) shaft mining b. Highlight four ways in the forest
(d) open cast mining vegetation contributes to the economy of the
45. Which of the following refers to the zone country (4mks)
of living things on the earths surface? (a) c. Outline any four problems associated with
Barysphere (b) Biosphere (c) stratosphere the exploitation of forest vegetation (2mks)
(d) atmosphere
46. The temperature recorded in a place is 4a. What is population density? (2mks)
81oF. What is the equivalent in degree b. state two areas of high population
centigrade? (a) 27oC (b) 32oC (c) 35oC densities in Nigeria and give four reasons
(d) 38oC for such high population density in one of
47. A caldera lake results from the action of the area chosen. (8mks)
(a) earthquake (b) vulcanicity (c)
weathering (d) folding 5a. On an outline map of West Africa
48. Earthquake shocks are recorded by a locate and two Anglophones countries and
delicate instrument called __(a) radar (b) two Franophone countries and their capitals
seismograph (c) clinometer (d) altimeter (5mks)
49. Which of the following features is found b. State five problems of land locked
along the lower course of a river? (a) countries. (5mks)
wind gap (b) rapids (c) interlocking spur
(d) meanders
50. Plung pool is a feature of (a) river
meanders (b) interlocking spur (c) water
falls (d) water rapids
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