Geography First Cycle ENS Bambili Competitive Entrance | Concours ENS Bamenda - Geographie

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• Geography 2016 / 2017 with History and Economics As Minors

•  Geography 2015 / 2016 with History and Economics As Minors

• Geography 2013 / 2014 with History and Economics As Minors

• Geography 2012 / 2013 with History and Economics As Minors

• Sample Multiple Choice Set 1

• Sample Multiple Choice Set 2

• Proposed Answers to Multiple Choice  Set 1

• Proposed Answers to Sample Multiple Choice Set 2

• Proposed Guide 2014

• Proposed Guide To Minor History 2016/2017

• Proposed Guide To Minor Economics 2016/2017

• Proposed Guide 2013

• Proposed Guide 2012

Instructions:

Answer all the questions in section 1 (Major Paper) and all the questions in section 2 (Minor Paper). Selecting the most appropriate answer (letter A, B, C or D) for each item and write it on the corresponding number space provided in your Answer Booklet. Make sure you insert the question paper inside the answer Booklet before you leave the Examination Hall. Good Luck! Time allowed: 3 Hours.

Extract of the Paper of 2017/2018

COMPETITIVE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION INTO FIRST YEAR OF THE FIRST CYCLE

ACADEMIC YEAR: 2016/2017

DEPARTMENT: GEOGRAPHY 2016

SECTION 1: MAJOR PAPER: GEOGRAPHY (40 marks) 

1.         One of the highly clustered nature of rural settlement in the Far North Region is

A)        The harsh climatic conditions            B) Extensive agricultural systems      C) Flat nature of the land      D) Localised water sources and customs of most people 

2.         Isodapane lines 

A)        Join all places with equal total cost of transporting raw materials and finished products 

B)        Join all places with equal transport cost transporting either raw materials or finished products 

C)        Show transport costs of raw materials which is pure and localized 

D)        Show transport costs of finished products 

3.         Identify the wrong statement from the following that does not correspond to the views of David Smith’s spatial margins of profitability 

A)        Profitable location is within the spatial margin of probability 

B)        Losses are made when production cost is below the revenue 

C)        Profits reduce in all directions from optimal location 

D)        Optimum location need not be at least cost location 

4.         Which of these is not a characteristic of the CBD 

A)        High proportion of city’s offices 

B)        The highest volume of concentration of traffic 

C)        High concentration of resident population 

D)        High concentration of tallest buildings 

5.         Choose the statement that best accounts for the differences in the shapes and forms of rural dwellings 

A)        The status of the occupants   B) the character of the relief and the drainage of the area   C) the building materials and the culture of the people         D) the occupation of the people

6.         Which of the following are meteorological factors that affect the rate of evaporation from one place to the other 

A)        Solar  energy, winds, vapour pressure gradient, salinity 

B)        Moisture availability, solar energy, wind, type of vegetal cover 

C)        Cloudiness, vapour pressure gradient, winds, solar energy

D)        Moisture availability, nature of land surface winds, vapour pressure gradient 

7.         The Cameroon Volcanic Line is a good example of 

A)        Continental divergent zone    B) continental convergent zone         C) continental conservative zone                   D) continental collision zone 

8.         Isostasy theory in tectonic geomorphology explains the state of 

A)        Equilibrium between the core and the crust 

B) Equilibrium between the mantle and the core     

C) Equilibrium between the lithosphere and asthenosphere                       

D) Disequilibrium between the mantle and the upper crust 

9.         Of the following atmospheric gases, there is one whose percentage volume is not influenced by human activities. Identify it

A)        Ozone             B) Methane     C) Carbondioxide      D) Oxygen 

10.       In a given drainage basin, the total length of stream is 20km and the surface area covered by this stream length is 12km2. What is the drainage density? 

A)        1.66     B) 0.66            C) 1.44            D) 1.88

 11.      A process by which sand and rock particles carried by wind in desert is blasted against rock outcrop resulting in scratching and removal of particles is called 

A)        Attrition          B) abrasion     C) corrosion    D) deflation 

12.       Which of the following is the dominant texture of a soil in a region dominated by high intensity physical weathering? 

A)        Clay    B) sand           C) silt              D) loam 

13.       Which of the following soil PH values is suitable for agriculture? 

A)        3          B) 3.1              C) 6                 D) 10.6 

14.       Study the diagram of the stream morphometric below 

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