Earlyface

Geography 2 (Essay) - 09:30am –
11:30am
Geography 1(Objective) - 11:30am –
12:30pm
NOW SOLVING AND TYPING
(5a)
(PICK ANY TWO)
(i) Root and tuber crops
(ii)Cereal crops
(iii)Berry
(iv) Cash crop
(5b)
(PICK ANY FIVE)
(i)It is very common in rural areas with
abundant farmlands.
(ii) It involves small holdings of
farmlands.
(iii) Food crops like yam, cassava and
maize are grown.
(iv)Farmlands are left to fallow after
one or two years of cultivation.
(v) A farmer returns to the farmland
after a fallow period of 2-5 years.
(vi) It uses slash or burn method for
land preparations.
(vii) It does not involve the cultivation
of cash crops like cocoa, rubber and oil
palm.
(viii)Bush fallowing is practised where
population is very low.
(ix) Produce is usually very low and
there is little or none for sale.
(5c)
(PICK ANY FOUR)
(i) It leads to wastage of land which
could have been used by allowing it to
lie fallow
(ii) It leads to land fragmentation due to
increase in population
(iii)It allows for cultivation of only one
seasonal crops like maize,rice and
millet
(iv) It does not lead to mechanisation
of farms i.e it does not allow for large
scale mechanised farming
(v)It results in poor yield resulting from
shorter fallow period as population
(vi)It leads to soil erosion when soil is
exhausted and it destroys valuable
forest resources like timber.
(1a)
(i)Road Transportation
(ii)Rail Transportation
(iii)Water Transportation
(iv)Air Transportation
(1b)
(PICK ANY FIVE)
(i) To supply raw materials to other
parts of the country e.g East African
railway.
(ii) To link important cities and
facilitate movement of people e.g.
Abidjan Ouagadougou.
(iii) To link different regions, thus,
promoting inter-regional trade e.g.
North and South of Nigeria.
(iv) To open up new areas for major
crop production e.g Jos- Maiduguri
(v)To tap resources such as
agricultural,mineral and forest. For
example , rail network such as
Minna,Laura Namoda rail network
(vi) For the purpose of administration.
(vii) For postal services.
(1c)
(PICK ANY FOUR)
(i)Deliberate effort should be made
towards the expansion of the Raul
network ,inorder to generate growth in
the economy. Effort should be geared
towards improvement of the efficiency
of the rail network
(ii) Government should make capital
available to railway authorities to
enhance efficiency. Training and
retraining of personnel should be
undertaken from time to time
(iii) Development of international rail
transport system should be embarked
upon to spur international trade. There
should be improved management
techniques: new innovations in
management should be encouraged.
(iv)Adoption of standard gauges is very
important , so as to enhance operational
efficiency.Also There should be Faster
engines and coaches to facilitate east
and quick movement.
(v)There should be embarkment to
check steep gradients, uniform gauges
should be adopted, double tracks
should be constructed and There
should also be improved
communication system.