JAMB Geography Past Questions 2025
10 questions from the JAMB 2025 Geography paper, with answers, and explanations for 4 of them. Tap "Show answer" under each one when you are ready.
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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JAMB 2025Question 6 · Economic Geography and Trade
Great Britain and Germany are trading partners of West African countries from
- A.South America
- B.The Far East
- C.West Europe
- D.North America
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JAMB 2025Question 7 · Oceanography and Physical Geography
A typical example of landforms produced by marine erosion is a
- A.stack
- B.spit
- C.beach
- D.mud-flat
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JAMB 2025Question 8 · Oceanography and Physical Geography
The heavy, dark soil associated with floodable valley bottoms is a
- A.lateritic soil
- B.hydromorphic soil
- C.ferrallitic soil
- D.podzolic soil
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Answer: B. hydromorphic soil
JAMB 2025Question 9 · Population and Settlement
On a population map of the world, all but one of the following appear generally as regions of low population density
- A.The Island of Java
- B.The Amazon forests
- C.The hot deserts
- D.Antarctica
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Answer: A. The Island of Java
JAMB 2025Question 10 · Regional Geography of Nigeria/West Africa
Which of the following towns is NOT a pre-colonial town?
- A.Bida
- B.Ilorin
- C.Ibadan
- D.Enugu
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