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It' i's revision time, take Geography - GCE A-Level 2020.

50/50 MCQs for:

GCE A-Level 2020.

Which of the following is presently the best index in measuring the level of development between countries?

Per capita income.

Gross national product.

Poverty index.

Human development index.

A type of globalisation that occurs from the growth of Transnational Corporations (TNCs), with a global presence as well as growth in world trade is:

Political globalisation.

Environmental globalisation.

Cultural globalisation.

Economic globalisation.

The minimum level of demand needed to sustain a service or good is known as:

Hierarchy of goods.

Threshold of goods.

Range of goods.

Order of goods.

What is the normal relationship between settlement size and the number of functions it performs?

Inverse or negative relationship.

Static relationship.

Stepped relationship.

Direct or positive relationship

A regular distribution pattern of settlement is known by a Nearest Neighbour Index of:

1.0.

2.15.

1.5.

0.0.

Study the Figure below and identify the K-value:

Figure title: K-values.

K = 3.

K = 7.

K = 9.

K = 4.

Which of the following best fits the system of urban hierarchy exhibited in Cameroon?

Primate pattern.

Lognormal pattern.

Binary pattern.

Stepped order pattern.

Which of the following theories depicts a situation where large cities are economic hubs with radiating connections for commerce?

Rank size rule.

Bid rent theory.

Central place theory.

Zipf's theory.

On a broad and extremely flat fertile floodplain of River Variance, is found a single low knoll on which many peasant farmers have settled.

What form will this settlement assume?

A clustered compact form.

A linear stretched out form.

A loose-knit village with isolated dwellings.

A cruciform or star-shaped form.

The pioneer settlers in rural areas in the past often sited in areas associated with one of the following factors. Identify the factors:

Where land was infertile for farming.

Where fuel wood was unavailable.

Where water was available.

Where flood was frequent.

From the figure below, the Detour Index from M and N would be Road network between two regions.

Figure title: Road network between two regions.

0.75

1.5.

1.3.

1.8.

Calculate the Beta Index (3) of the network illustrated in the figure below where β = e/v.

Figure title: Hypothetical transport network.

1.6.

1.8.

1.5.

1.4.

The single most significant factor that has been responsible for foot-loose industries is:

Land and pleasant environment.

Emergence of electricity.

Mobility of labour.

Government policy.

Cameroon's economy is mostly limited to:

Primary economic activities.

Secondary activities.

Non basic industry.

Service industries.

The table below gives information for the three industries A, B and C. Table Table title: Relationship between weight of raw material and finished products.

The Material index for industries A and C respectively are:

1.5 and 1.0.

1.6 and 2.0.

1.2 and 1.0.

1.0 and 1.25.

Isolate the statement that is correct about the margin of cultivation.

A point where revenue and cost are equal.

A point where farmers incur losses.

A point where one crop gives way to another.

A zone where profits are made.

Which of the following is an aspect of the Green Revolution?

Little use of scientific research.

Irrigation and terracing.

Land fragmentation.

Non-use of fertilisers and pesticides.

Isolate from the list below, a characteristic of intensive commercial farming.

High yield per man.

High income per farmer.

Low inputs per person or farmer.

Low yields per man.

According to Esther Boserup's concept of the relationship between population and resources, 'necessity is the mother of invention'. This means that:

An increase in population will lead to a drop in production.

An increase in population will stimulate production.

A drop in population will lead to a drop in production.

A drop in population will increase production.

Which of the following is an indicator of optimum-population?

Numerous unexploited resources.

High standards of living.

Shortage of labour force.

Uneven distribution of population.

If on a Lorenz curve, the first 60% of the land is occupied by 80% of the population, what will be the percentage of population that will occupy the remaining 40% of the land area?

15%.

20%.

30%.

40%.

The total population of an area at any given time is the balance between two main determinants of change. Identify the most appropriate pair.

Immigration and emigration.

Natural change and net migration.

Natural Increase and emigration.

Birth rate and death rate.

Which one of the following pairs is a region of low population density in the world?

The Nile Valley and South East Asia.

North West Europe and South Asia.

East Asia and North East USA.

Central Brazil and Congo-Basin.

A situation whereby rapid rate of population growth does not meet with corresponding improvement in technology so that the population is in danger describes:

Population doubling time.

Population trap.

The exponential growth model.

The Malthus theory of population growth.

A country's population is growing at 2% a year and the population of that country is 10 million inhabitants.

Calculate the doubling time of that country's population given that DT 70/growth rate.

None.

45 years. e) 55 years.

35 years.

25 years.

Building levees and retaining walls, construction of dams, straightening meanders are some of the ways to control.

Global warming.

Flooding.

Desertification.

Soil erosion.

Which of the following techniques is the best method of predicting floods?

Recurrence interval.

Hydrograph analysis.

Real time monitoring.

Using a hypsometer.

Which of the following is a trophic 3 organisms in an ecosystem?

Caterpillar.

Lion.

Grasshopper.

Goat.

Autotrophs in an ecosystem refer to:

Plants which manufacture their own food.

Plant and animal groupings which are self perpetuating.

Animals which feed themselves.

Plants and animals which manufacture their own food.

Which of the following aptly supports the view that the tropical grassland is a plagio climax vegetation?

The continuous action of man in the area.

It is a mixture of grasses and trees in varied proportions.

It changes in character with variations in climatic conditions.

It lies between latitudes 5° and 15° north and south of the equator.

The estuary of the Wouri River is a marshy area made up of swampy mud flats that experience flooding regularly. The soil type along this estuary is certainly:

Hydromorphic.

Ferralitic.

Halomorphic.

Lateritic.

Identify the pair of pedogenic processes which all operate in the warm wet tropical zone.

Ferralitization and podzolization.

Calcification and salinization.

Ferralitization and salinization.

Mineralization and ferralitization

One soil type has the following characteristics:

- a thick litter layer that decomposes very slowly.

- a bleached ash-grey.

- A-horizon made up of sandy quartz and silica low soil pH

- a hardpan layer in the B-horizon made up of deposited sesquioxides of iron and aluminium.

This soil type is most certainly:

A ferralitic soil.

A ferruginous soil.

A Podzolized soil.

A chernozem or black earth.

It is a textural class with a smooth but gritty feel that can be rolled into any shape without it disintegrating

Loam.

Sand.

Clay.

Silt.

All of the following peaks are found along the Cameroon volcanic line (CVL) except one, Isolate the exception.

Mount Oku.

Mount Chabal Mbambo.

Mount Kupe.

Mount Gambier.

One of the following best explains why the lower course of a river is characterised by high deposition of sediments.

The velocity of a river reduces in its lower course.

The valley of a river is widest in the lower course.

Rapids are rare in the lower course.

A delta sometimes develops in the lower course.

A field walk on the Bamenda Highlands reveals some portions with tree trunks, fences and telephone poles tilting downslope; and accumulation of soil at the foot of slopes. Which of the following types of mass movement is taking place?

Solifluction.

Soil creep.

Mudflow.

Rotational slip.

It is a process of weathering which occurs when minerals in freshly exposed rocks absorb additional oxygen and expand causing stress within the rock.

Hydration

Oxidation.

Solution.

Hydrolysis.

Which of the following is true about Earthquakes?

S-waves are of low frequency.

Destruction is minimal at the epicentre.

The focus is the point of origin.

P-waves are high frequency waves.

It is a zone of earthquakes at the edge of a subducting plate:

Seismic zone.

Benioff zone.

Plate margin.

Subduction zone.

Which type of volcano is associated with the constructive plate margins?

Shield cone.

Cumulo-dome.

Ash and cinder cone.

Composite cone.

Most of the rivers or tributaries being harnessed to produce hydroelectric power in Cameroon belong to one of the following drainage basins. Which is the basin?

Niger-Benue basin.

Chad basin.

Atlantic basin.

Congo basin

Which of the following is a linkage in a basin's hydrological cycle?

Soil moisture.

Surface detention.

Base flow.

Ground water.

What is the smallest store of water in the global hydrological cycle?:

Underground water.

Lakes and rivers.

The polar ice caps and ice sheets.

Soil moisture zone.

The major force that powers the unending circulation of water in the hydrological cycle is?

Evaporation and precipitation.

Gravitational pull.

Terrestrial radiation.

Solar energy.

A type of climate that has characteristics of converging warm and unstable air masses as well as double maxima rainfall

Equatorial climate.

Tropical hot desert climate.

Tropical continental climate.

Tropical monsoon climate.

Which of the following regions in Cameroon records a higher amount of total rainfall per annum?

The Southern Low Plateau.

The Northern Lowlands.

The Western Highlands.

The Adamawa Plateau.

Which one of the following is a method of heat transfer from the earth surface?

Scattering.

Reflection.

Radiation.

Absorption.

Which atmospheric condition is illustrated in the figure below?

Conditional Instability.

None is correct.

Neutral instability.

Atmospheric stability.

Why is the troposphere described as a weather-making layer?

It is a zone of stability.

Within it, temperature falls with increase in height.

It is farther to the earth's surface.

It has a high concentration of atmospheric constituents.