UI Post-UTME Geography 2018 (Model questions) past questions and answers

Which of the following phenomena is not directly related to the revolution of the earth?

1. A.Seasonal changes
2. B.Varying duration of sunshine hours
3. C.Unequal solar radiation on the earth's surface
4. D.Night and day
5. E.The tropics

Which pair of activities would NOT find in equatorial climate? 1. Commercial grain farming 2. Rice cultivation, 3. Lumbering 4. Plantation agriculture 5. Dry farming

1. A.1 and 2
2. B.2 and 5
3. C.3 and 4
4. D.1 and 5
5. E.2 and 3

What does subsistence agriculture means?

1. A.Intensive agriculture
2. B.Extensive agriculture
3. C.Agricultural production for cash
4. D.Agricultural production for export
5. E.Agricultural production for household consumption

Which of the following most accurately describes the climate of coastlands which are adjacent to cool ocean currents?

1. A.Summer rain, winter drought
2. B.Winter rain, summer drought
3. C.Rain all the year round
4. D.Monsoon rainfall pattern
5. E.Aridity

Which of the following factors must account for the rapid increase in world population during the twentieth century?

1. A.the slave trade was abolished
2. B.Death rates have decreased rapidly
3. C.Birth rates have increased rapidly
4. D.Increasing world production of food
5. E.Large-scale migration of people

If a map at a scale of 1:50 000 is reduced by half what is the scale of the new map?

1. A.1:250 000
2. B.1:25 000
3. C.1:200 000
4. D.1:100 000
5. E.1:125 000

Mixed farming implies

1. A.growing crops and rearing animals on a given land area
2. B.Keeping poultry and rearing pigs on one and the same farm
3. C.Growing grains and root crops on the same pieces of land
4. D.Mixed cultivation of wheat, barley, and oats
5. E.Intercropping of yam, cassava and maize

Temperature is to isotherms as pressure is to

1. A.Isopleths
2. B.Contours
3. C.Isobars
4. D.Isolines
5. E.Isohyets

Which of the following gradients is the steepest?

1. A.1 in 135
2. B.1 in 351
3. C.1 in 531
4. D.1 in 315
5. E.1 in 153

In which one of the following countries is commercial grain farming an important occupation?

1. A.Nigeria
2. B.Kenya
3. C.Spain
4. D.Canada
5. E.Brazil

Which of the following provides the best location for a bakery?

1. A.Near a regular source of flour
2. B.In an area of cheap labour
3. C.Near a large market for bread
4. D.Near a source of good clean water
5. E.Near a regular source of electricity

The length of a year is 365¼ days because that is time it takes

1. A.the sun to revolve round its orbit
2. B.the earth to rotate on its axis
3. C.the moon to revolve once round the earth
4. D.the sun to revolve once round the earth
5. E.the earth to revolve once round the sun

Which of the following lakes owes its origin mainly to faulting?

1. A.Lake Chard
2. B.Lake Superior
3. C.Lake Malawi
4. D.Lake Victoria
5. E.Lake Kariba

Which of the following towns is NOT a pre-colonial town?

1. A.Ilorin
2. B.Bida
3. C.Enugu
4. D.Ibadan
5. E.Kano

Two factors which promote rapid chemical weathering in the tropics are

1. A.high temperature and extreme aridity
2. B.high temperature and low humidity
3. C.low temperature and high humidity
4. D.high temperature and high humidity
5. E.high temperature and low rainfall

The greatest volume of shipping across the Atlantic Ocean is

1. A.between Africa and South America
2. B.between Africa and North America
3. C.between North America and South America
4. D.between Europe and North America
5. E.between Europe and Africa

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?

1. A.Wednesday between 03.30 and 04.30 hours
2. B.Monday between 03.30 and 04.30 hours
3. C.Tuesday between 15.30 and 16.30 hours
4. D.Tuesday between 21.30 and 22.30 hours
5. E.Tuesday between 02.30 and 03.30 hours