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Kindly note that you will be presented with 50 questions randomized from the NOUN question bank. Make sure to take the quiz multiple times so you can get familiar with the questions and answers, as new questions are randomized in each attempt.
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ESM102
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__is a method in which a part of a stream, river is depened, widened or straightened to allow more rapid runoff
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The year that Okonkwo took eight hundred seed yams from _________ was the worst year in living memory.
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We don't find desert encroachment in _________
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Continental shelf is small in size averaging 20-25km in width in _________.
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Climate determines the way the __________ of an ecosystem will look
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Between 1975 and _________, Nigeria's vegetation witnessed sharp loss.
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Solar radiation is most often measured indirectly by using ___________ .
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___________is the Northern most part of the savanna belt in Nigeria, aside the Sahel in the far northeast.
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The sun being the source of solar radiation has been described by some scientists as a gigantic fireball of % helium
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The paucity of sand on __________ beach and environs is attributed to sediment loss to Avon and Mahin sub-marine canons off the delta toe
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The __________ is underlain by young sedimentary rocks with most of them possessing plain tops and a largelayer of indurate ironstone.
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Continental shelf measures about _______km off cape Formoso at the nose of the Niger Delta
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___________ are prominent residual rockmass which are often remnants of erosion can be found around old hard rocks
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__________ is defined as the physical characteristics of the troposphere of an area based on analysis of its weather over at least 30 years.
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may also be defined as the gradual removal of rock or soil particles from its initial deposit by the means of wind, waves, water, glaciers, soil slope or by human activities
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The Continental shelf streaches ______km offshore Calabar in the east.
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___________ stated that the barrier lagoon complex grades eastward into a mud beach in the vicinity of Lekki Lagoon
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A very small fraction of about _________% is captured by green plants, bacteria, andstimulates the process of photosynthesis.
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____________is situated on the South-East end of the High plains of Hausaland
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can be located in the far northeast of Nigeria occupying part of Yola and Maiduguri.
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________plateau has Tertiary to Recent volcanism which formed a distinct region of basaltic lava flows, volcanoes and vents at various stages of erosion
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The total brackish area is about _________km2
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A unit where the relationship of living organisms is studied is referred to as _________.
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It was mentioned that the mud beach extends for_______km and terminates at the Benin river mouth on the northwest Flank of the Niger Delta
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About ______% of the solar energy reaching the troposphere is reflected back into space by clouds, chemicals,dust and the earth's land and water surface.
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The amount of solar energy, that gets to the outer atmosphere of the earth is called the
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__is the Northern most part of the savanna belt in Nigeria, aside the Sahel in the far northeast.
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_______and embankment can reduce the possibility of water overflowing into nearby floodplains. It could be permanent or temporary such as sandbags placed when a flood is imminent
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Forest occupies about _______% of Nigeria
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The sun being the source of solar radiation has been described by some scientists as a gigantic fireball of ______% helium.
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The year that Okonkwo took eight hundred seed yams from was the worst year in living memory
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The mean annual rainfall of Sahel savanna was reported to be mm and long dry seasons between seven to eight months.
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_________% of the fresh water are locked up in ice caps or glaciers or buried so deep that it costs so much to extract
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may be described as the amount of solar radiation falling upon an environment per unit area
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Temperature on the surface of the sun has been estimated to be over
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region is known for heavy rain fall that encourages leaching and erosion.
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_______ and ________ are two types of Quaternary
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Quaternary began around million years ago
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Only _______% of the earth's total volume of water is easily assessable to us.
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The _______ plateau is another area where inselbergs can be found.
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___________ may be described as the amount of solar radiation falling upon an environment per unit area
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Quaternary began around ______ million years ago
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The amount of solar energy, that gets to the outer atmosphere of the earth is called the____________
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The sun being the source of solar radiation has been described by some scientists as a gigantic fireball of _______% hydrogen.
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Nigeria is located in the _________ of Africa
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About % of the solar energy reaching the troposphere is reflected back into space by clouds, chemicals,dust and the earth's land and water surface.
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Less than ______% of the solar constant pass through the atmosphere and arrive at the earth's surface.
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Between 1975 and Nigeria's vegetation witnessed sharp loss.
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defined the environment as the sum total of the condition within which organisms live
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s a period which is referred to as the present geological period that followed the tertiary period
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