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SPECIMEN PAPER
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
FOR
GEOGRAPHY
Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Read each item you are
about to answer and decide which choice is best.
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The best answer to this item is "features formed when confined streams flow onto a plain", so answer
space (C) has been shaded.
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Items 7 - 8 refer to the sketch map below. 10. Which of the following is a likely
consequence of emigration from a developing
Carrying capacity country?
(A) S-shaped
(B) J-shaped
(C) exponential
(D) cumulative
(A) decentralisation
(B) deindustrialisation
(C) urban agglomeration
(D) urban primacy GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE
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Item 13 refers to the diagram below. Items 14 refers to the population pyramid
below.
BIRTH RATE, DEAllI RATE and RATE OF MALt . . . FEMALE.
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15 - 64 41616
(A) 10
(B) 23
(C) 33
(D) 66
16. The capacity of a river is 21. Which of the following processes influences
coastal erosion?
(A) its highest discharge
CB) its suspended load (A) Abrasion
(C) its solution load (B) Infiltration
CD) the total load carried (C) Percolation
CD) Saltation
(A) Caverns
(B) Poljes
(C) Sink holes
(D) Stalagmites
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Item 24 refers to the diagram below. 26. Which of the following characteristics may
result in laminar flow?
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25. The most important effect on the rate of (B) 10 ems"
chemical weathering of limestone in the (C) 20 ems"
tropical rain forest is high levels of (D) 50 ems-I
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Cobbles boulders
Size of particles (mm)
31. Which of the following is NOt a 33. Which of the following waves can only travel
technological hazard? through the outer part of the crust?
32. Which of the following are climatic hazards? 34. Which of the following does NOT provide
evidence for the Theory of plate Tectonics?
(A) Blizzards, drought, sleet, drizzle
(B) Floods, tornadoes, heat waves, (A) Mid-Atlantic Ridge
tropical cyclones (B) Paleomagnetism
(C) Hurricane, hail, drought, tsunamis (C) Rocks and fossils
(D) Tsunamis, hail, frost, anticyclones (D) Sea-level Changes
35. The Richter scale of earthquake magnitude 40. Which of the following does NOT contribute
represents the to flash floods?
36. Which of the following is NOT the result of 41. Earthquakes may result in the formation of
plate movements in the Eastern Caribbean?
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CA) Earthquakes II sinkholes
(B) Hot spots III landslides
(C) Trenches IV tsunamis
(D) Volcanic eruptions
(A) 1and III only
(B) III and IV only
37. In which of the following places does (C) I, II and IV only
sea-floor spreading occur? (0) I, III and IV only
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44. Which is the BEST location for the site of a 45. At which location is there likely to be an
new capital? increase in the land area of the island?
(A) I (A) 1
(B) 2 (B) 2
(C) 3 (C) 3
(D) 4 (D) 4
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