JAMB Geography Past Questions and Answers
882 questions from 17 JAMB Geography papers, 1990 to 2025. Pick a year to see 10 of its questions with answers.
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Sample questions from JAMB 2025
JAMB 2025Question 1 · Map Reading and Practical Geography
A map has a linear scale in which 1 centimetre on the map represents 500 metres on the ground. What is the representative fraction (RF) of the map?
- A.1:100,000
- B.1:50,000
- C.1:25,000
- D.1:200,000
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Answer: B. 1:50,000
500 metres = 50,000cm, so 1cm represents 50,000cm on the ground, giving a representative fraction of 1:50,000.
JAMB 2025Question 2 · Oceanography and Physical Geography
Which of the following pairs of landforms are of desert (arid) origin?
- A.yardangs and batholiths
- B.zeugens and inselbergs
- C.barchans and tombolos
- D.sandbars and tombolos
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Answer: B. zeugens and inselbergs
Zeugens and inselbergs are both landforms produced by arid/desert processes (wind erosion and differential weathering respectively).
JAMB 2025Question 3 · Regional Geography of Nigeria/West Africa
The longitude that almost bisects Africa into two equal halves, east and west, is longitude
- A.20∘E
- B.20∘W
- C.40∘E
- D.40∘W
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Answer: A. 20∘E
Longitude 20∘E runs roughly through the middle of the African continent, dividing it into approximately equal eastern and western halves.
JAMB 2025Question 4 · Weather, Climate, and Ecology
A fog is most likely to develop when a
- A.warm, moist wind blows over a cold current
- B.cold, dry wind blows over a warm current
- C.warm, moist wind blows over a warm current
- D.warm, dry wind blows over a cold current
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Answer: A. warm, moist wind blows over a cold current
Advection fog forms when warm, moist air moves over a cold surface (such as a cold ocean current) and is cooled to its dew point.
JAMB 2025Question 5 · Economic Geography and Trade
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.Animal husbandry
- D.Fish farming
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Topics that come up most
- Relief, Drainage, and Rocks/Minerals · 135
- Population and Settlement · 127
- Economic Geography and Trade · 108
- Agriculture and Vegetation · 96
- Weather, Climate, and Ecology · 91
- Industry and Natural Resources · 74
- Map Reading and Practical Geography · 72
- Weathering, Erosion, and Soils · 69
- General Past Questions · 55
- Oceanography and Physical Geography · 47
- Regional Geography of Nigeria/West Africa · 8
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