the felling and extraction of timber from forest for sale

keeping livestock and growing crops together on the same holding

clearing a plot, farming it until yields fall, then moving on and letting it recover

intensive growing of vegetables and fruit close to a town that will buy them

A population pyramid with a very broad base and a narrow apex indicates a population with:

a high birth rate and a low life expectancy

a low birth rate and a high life expectancy

a high rate of emigration among young adults

an equal number of people in every age group

The most striking feature of the tropical rainforest is:

tall evergreen trees arranged in distinct layers or storeys

widely spaced deciduous trees with grass between them

short, thorny shrubs adapted to a long dry season

trees with stilt roots growing in saline water

Shifting cultivation is best described as a system in which:

land is farmed for a few years then left to recover

the same plot is farmed continuously with fertiliser

livestock are moved between pastures

crops are grown under irrigation

On a map, the key is:

the panel explaining what each symbol on the map stands for

the pair of numbers that locates a point by the lines east and north of it

the direction of one place from another, measured in degrees clockwise from north

a line joining all the points on a map that stand at the same height

On a map, a bearing is:

the direction of one place from another, measured in degrees clockwise from north

a line joining all the points on a map that stand at the same height

the statement of how a distance on the map relates to the same distance on the ground

the pair of numbers that locates a point by the lines east and north of it

In economic geography, tourism is:

the business of receiving visitors who travel for interest or recreation

the extraction of minerals from the ground, whether at the surface or underground

the taking of fish from rivers, lagoons or the sea, whether for sale or for food

the conversion of raw materials into finished goods, usually in a factory

What is a push factor?

a condition driving people OUT of an area, such as poor soils or insecurity

buildings strung out in a line along a road, a river or a ridge

buildings scattered singly across farmland, each on its own holding

a condition drawing people TOWARDS an area, such as work or better schooling

What is a nucleated settlement?

buildings clustered tightly around a central point such as a market or a water source

a condition driving people OUT of an area, such as poor soils or insecurity

a condition drawing people TOWARDS an area, such as work or better schooling

the number of people per unit area of land

What is a bench mark?

a fixed point of known height, marked on the ground and shown on the map

a single point on a map labelled with its exact height

a line joining points of equal height above sea level

the scale expressed as a ratio with no units, such as 1 : 50,000

a metamorphic rock formed when shale is compressed, splitting into thin flat sheets

a sedimentary rock formed from grains of sand cemented together

a fine-grained igneous rock formed when lava cools quickly at the surface

a coarse-grained igneous rock formed when magma cools slowly beneath the surface

West African Examinations Council

WASSCE Geography · Paper 1 — Objective

Multiple-choice. This is the paper the CBT simulator practises.

40 of 268 exam-style questions, written to the West African Examinations Council format and free to read. The answers are here too — what they do not tell you is how many you would get right with a clock running.

Sit this paper timed All WASSCE Geography papers

What is lumbering?

What is lumbering?

2. A population pyramid with a very broad base and a narrow apex indicates a population with:

3. The most striking feature of the tropical rainforest is:

4. Which term means the angular distance of a place east or west of the prime meridian?

5. Shifting cultivation is best described as a system in which:

6. Which rock is formed by limestone recrystallised in the solid state by great heat and pressure?

7. On a map, which is the ridge of high ground separating one drainage basin from the next?

8. On a map, the key is:

9. On a map, a bearing is:

10. In economic geography, tourism is:

11. On a map of scale 1 : 100,000, two towns are 7 cm apart. The actual distance between them is:

12. What is a push factor?

13. What is a nucleated settlement?

14. Which activity is described as the felling and extraction of timber from forest for sale?

15. What is a bench mark?

16. Which term means either of the two days a year on which day and night are of equal length everywhere?

17. The direction opposite to north-east is:

18. Which river feature is a pronounced bend in a river's course across its flood plain?

19. In map reading, which term means a line joining all the points on a map that stand at the same height?

20. Slate is:

21. Which is produced by a dry dusty wind blowing from the Sahara over West Africa between November and February?

22. Which activity is described as keeping livestock and growing crops together on the same holding?

23. In settlement geography, a town is:

24. Which economic activity is the taking of fish from rivers, lagoons or the sea, whether for sale or for food?

25. Basalt is:

26. Which rock is a metamorphic rock formed when limestone is altered by heat and pressure?

27. A nucleated settlement pattern is one in which buildings are:

28. What marks out Sahel savanna?

29. Which instrument measures the direction from which the wind is blowing?

30. Which term means the turning of the earth on its own axis once in about twenty-four hours?

31. Which rock is formed by the compaction and cementing of sand grains laid down in layers?

32. A delta is most likely to form at the mouth of a river where the:

33. Which environmental problem is described as the clearing of tree cover faster than it regenerates, exposing soil to rain?

34. An oil spillage is:

35. Which economic activity is the business of receiving visitors who travel for interest or recreation?

36. Which of the following best explains why flooding has become more frequent in Nigerian cities?

37. In map reading, which term means the statement of how a distance on the map relates to the same distance on the ground?

38. Which is responsible for the line of 0 degrees latitude, dividing the northern from the southern hemisphere?

39. Contour lines that are very close together indicate:

40. How is a waterfall formed?

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