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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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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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__is the Northern most part of the savanna belt in Nigeria, aside the Sahel in the far northeast.
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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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The saline swamps of the Niger delta occupies ________ hectares
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In Nigeria the average animal sunshine hours has been reported to be _______ in the south
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About ------- million sq km of land have become desertified in the past 50 years.
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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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Over ______% of Nigeria's original forest were lost due to unplanned land use.
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Climate determines the way the __________ of an ecosystem will look
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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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Sudan Savanna's mean annual rainfall is between __________mm
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s the largest vegetation cover in Nigeria extending over about 50% of the total landmass.
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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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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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The total brackish area is about _________km2
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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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region is known for heavy rain fall that encourages leaching and erosion.
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Solar radiation is most often measured indirectly by using
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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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Pleistocyne and are two types of Quaternary
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_______ and ________ are two types of Quaternary
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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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A unit where the relationship of living organisms is studied is referred to as _________.
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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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___________ region is known for heavy rain fall that encourages leaching and erosion.
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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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___________ are prominent residual rockmass which are often remnants of erosion can be found around old hard rocks
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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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_________% 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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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 has the largest area of mangrove forest in Africa with an estimate of ___________km2.
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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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________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 savanna zone occupies about ________% of the land surface of Nigeria.
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In Nigeria the average animal sunshine hours has been reported to be in the south
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In the biosphere almost all energy is from the __________.
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Nigeria occupies a landmass of ___________ sq. kms.
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The Continental shelf streaches ______km offshore Calabar in the east.
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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 largest vegetation cover in Nigeria extending over about 50% of the total landmass
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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 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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The sun being the source of solar radiation has been described by some scientists as a gigantic fireball of ______% helium.
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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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