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may be described as the amount of solar radiation falling upon an environment per unit area
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The _______ plateau is another area where inselbergs can be found.
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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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In Nigeria the average animal sunshine hours has been reported to be _______ in the south
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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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__________ 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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The savanna zone occupies about ________% of the land surface of Nigeria.
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Between 1975 and _________, Nigeria's vegetation witnessed sharp loss.
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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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__________ can be located in the far northeast of Nigeria occupying part of Yola and Maiduguri.
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Pleistocyne and are two types of Quaternary
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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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The Sokoto plain is in the far __________ of Nigeria and is made of sedimentary rocks.
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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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_______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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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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Between 1975 and Nigeria's vegetation witnessed sharp loss.
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Quaternary began around million years ago
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Nigeria is located in the _________ of Africa
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___________ region is known for heavy rain fall that encourages leaching and erosion.
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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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Sudan Savanna's mean annual rainfall is between __________mm
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The Continental shelf streaches ______km offshore Calabar in the east.
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The saline swamps of the Niger delta occupies ________ hectares
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Climate determines the way the __________ of an ecosystem will look
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About ------- million sq km of land have become desertified in the past 50 years.
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Continental shelf measures about _______km off cape Formoso at the nose of the Niger Delta
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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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s a period which is referred to as the present geological period that followed the tertiary period
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region is known for heavy rain fall that encourages leaching and erosion.
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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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In the biosphere almost all energy is from the __________.
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Temperature on the surface of the sun has been estimated to be over
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s the largest vegetation cover in Nigeria extending over about 50% of the total landmass.
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may be defined as a body of water, which moves over and above an area of land, which is not normally submerged
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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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Only _______% of the earth's total volume of water is easily assessable to us.
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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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The vegetation belt in Nigeria are determined by _________ factors.
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Climate change is real in Nigerian environment
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Temperature on the surface of the sun has been estimated to be over ________
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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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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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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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__________ is a period which is referred to as the present geological period that followed the tertiary period
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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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Quaternary began around ______ million years ago
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The total brackish area is about _________km2
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defined the environment as the sum total of the condition within which organisms live
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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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In Nigeria the average animal sunshine hours has been reported to be in the south
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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 high plains of __________is the largest size topographical feature in the Nigerian Environment.
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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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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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_________% 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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We don't find rain forest for instance in _________
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____________is situated on the South-East end of the High plains of Hausaland
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Over % of Nigeria's original forest were lost due to unplanned land use.
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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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Sudan Savanna's mean annual rainfall is between 510 and _mm
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Nigeria occupies a landmass of ___________ sq. kms.
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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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_______ and ________ are two types of Quaternary
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Over ______% of Nigeria's original forest were lost due to unplanned land use.
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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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___________is the Northern most part of the savanna belt in Nigeria, aside the Sahel in the far northeast.
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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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We don't find desert encroachment in _________
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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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Nigeria has the largest area of mangrove forest in Africa with an estimate of ___________km2.
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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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____________stretches (around Imo to Calabar) specifically from Imo River to Calabar River estuary at the Nigeria/Cameroun borders.
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Continental shelf is small in size averaging 20-25km in width in _________.
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A unit where the relationship of living organisms is studied is referred to as _________.
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can be located in the far northeast of Nigeria occupying part of Yola and Maiduguri.
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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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Forest occupies about _______% of Nigeria
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Solar radiation is most often measured indirectly by using
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Derive Savanna covers an area of about _________ sq.km about 8% of the country
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___________ may be defined as a body of water, which moves over and above an area of land, which is not normally submerged
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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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Solar radiation is most often measured indirectly by using ___________ .
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_____________ is the largest vegetation cover in Nigeria extending over about 50% of the total landmass
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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 Niger Delta coast extends from the mouth of the ________river, to the mouth of the Imo River in the east
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