2021 - JAMB Geography Past Questions and Answers - page 3

Rainforest trees grow in mixed stands of many species, not pure stands. Small, tough, leathery, hairy leaves belong to drier vegetation such as savanna, rainforest trees are not conical, and the dense canopy limits undergrowth.

Pastoral farming is the rearing of livestock only. Mixed farming combines crops and livestock, and intensive farming uses small land with high inputs.

Coal forms from the compressed remains of plants. Gypsum is a chemical deposit, and grit and shale are mechanically formed from rock fragments.

The Eiffel Tower is in Paris, France, not Germany. The Pyramids are in Egypt, the Colosseum is in Italy and Victoria Falls is on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border.

Monadnock is a residual mountain, an isolated hill left standing after the surrounding land was eroded away. It is not formed by volcanic activity.

In photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide from the air to make food. Combustion, respiration and putrefaction release carbon dioxide into the air.

A confluence town grows at the meeting point of two rivers. A nucleated settlement is a compact cluster of buildings, a linear settlement stretches along a road or river, and a nodal town grows where routes converge.

One revolution around the sun takes about 365¼ days, which determines a year. Day and night, dawn and twilight, and apparent sunrise and sunset are caused by rotation.

Nigeria's historical colonial ties with developed countries such as Britain established trade links that continue today. Developed countries have a high, not low, level of technology, and their products differ from Nigeria's rather than being similar.

Denudation is the overall lowering of the land surface by weathering, erosion and mass wasting together. Weathering and mass wasting are only parts of it.