Pick out the incorrect statement
- A. The Ruhr is a great industrial region
- B. Scandinavia is noted for its hardwood timber
- C. The North Sea is a great fishing area
- D. Katanga is a copper mining region
- E. Woollen fabrics are manufactured in Yorkshire
In which of the following countries is commercial grain farming an important occupation?
- A. Nigeria
- B. Kenya
- C. Spain
- D. Canada
- E. Brazil
Which of the following gradients is the steepest?
- A. 1 in 134
- B. 1 in 351
- C. 1 in 531
- D. 1 in 315
- E. 1 in 153
Temperature is to isotherms as air pressure is to
- A. isopleths
- B. contours
- C. isobars
- D. isolines
- E. isohyets
The wearing away of the sides and bottom of a river’s channel is called
- A. hydraulic action
- B. corrosion
- C. attrition
- D. corrasion
- E. solution
Which of the following lakes owes its origin mainly to faulting?
- A. Lake Chad
- B. Lake Superior
- C. Lake Malawi
- D. Lake Victoria
- E. lake Kariba
Which of the following currents has a warming influence upon the coast along which it flows?
- A. Mozambique current
- B. Labrador current
- C. Benguela current
- D. Canaries current
- E. Humboldt current
A World Title Boxing contest took place in New York (75°W time zone) on a Tuesday between 21:30 and 22:30 Hours and was televised live. When did viewers in Lagos (15°E time zone) watch the contest live on television?
- A. Wednesday between 03:30 and 04:30 Hours
- B. Monday between 03:30 and 04:30 Hours
- C. Tuesday between 15:30 and 16:30 Hours
- D. Tuesday between 21:30 and 22:30 Hours
- E. Tuesday between 02:30 and 03:30 Hours
Which one of the following countries has an export trade which is dominated by a single mineral?
- A. Central Africa Empire
- B. Uganda
- C. Kenya
- D. Zambia
- E. Mozambique
Which ONE of the following statements about the railway lines of Africa is false?
- A. There is no trans-continental railway in Africa which can be compared with the Trans-Siberian Railway in length or importance
- B. Africa's railway lines are all of uniform gauge
- C. Few railway lines in Africa cross from one country to another
- D. The railway lines of Africa generally run from the coast inland
- E. The densest railway network in Africa is in the Republic of South Africa
The Middle Best of West Africa is NOT characterised by one of the following. Which one?
- A. Low population densities
- B. Ethnic fragmentation
- C. Few large towns
- D. Much export crop production
- E. Predominance of subsistence agriculture
Which of the following has the highest mean annual rainfall?
- A. Freetown
- B. Accra
- C. Lome
- D. Lagos
- E. Enugu
Which of the following towns is NOT a pre-colonial town?
- A. Ilorin
- B. Bida
- C. Enugu
- D. Ibadan
- E. Kano
The greatest volume of shipping across the Atlantic Ocean is
- A. between Africa and South America
- B. between Africa and North America
- C. between North America and South America
- D. between Europe and North America
- E. between Europe and Africa
Which of the following provides the best location for a bakery?
- A. Near a regular source of flour
- B. In an area of cheap labour
- C. Near a large market for bread
- D. Near a source of good clean water
- E. Near a regular source of electricity
Which of the following type of agriculture would you expect to find around a big city in an industrial society such as in Europe?
- A. Dairy farming
- B. Grain farming
- C. Fish farming
- D. Animal husbandry
- E. Intensive subsistence agriculture
What does subsistence agriculture mean?
- A. Intensive agriculture
- B. Extensive agriculture
- C. Agricultural production for cash
- D. Agricultural production for export
- E. Agricultural production for household consumption
Which of the following factors must account for the rapid increase in world population during the twentieth century?
- A. The slave trade was abolished
- B. Death rates have decreased rapidly
- C. Birth rates have increased rapidly
- D. Increasing world production of food
- E. Large-scale migration of people
How were the major mountain belts of the world produced?
- A. By wind erosion
- B. By Folding
- C. By glacial erosion
- D. By weathering
- E. By river deposition
Which of the following most accurately describe the climate of coast lands which are adjacent to cool ocean currents?
- A. summer rain, winter drought
- B. winter rain, summer drought
- C. rain all the year round
- D. monsoon rainfall pattern
- E. aridity
If a map at a scale of 1:50,000 is reduced by half, what is the new scale of the map?
- A. 1:250,000
- B. 1:25,000
- C. 1:200,000
- D. 1:100,000
- E. 1:125,000