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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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Between 1975 and Nigeria's vegetation witnessed sharp loss.
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A unit where the relationship of living organisms is studied is referred to as _________.
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Climate determines the way the __________ of an ecosystem will look
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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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Temperature on the surface of the sun has been estimated to be over
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The total brackish area is about _________km2
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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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A very small fraction of about _________% is captured by green plants, bacteria, andstimulates the process of photosynthesis.
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The high plains of __________is the largest size topographical feature in the Nigerian Environment.
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In the biosphere almost all energy is from the __________.
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Only _______% of the earth's total volume of water is easily assessable to us.
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Between 1975 and _________, Nigeria's vegetation witnessed sharp loss.
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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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____________stretches (around Imo to Calabar) specifically from Imo River to Calabar River estuary at the Nigeria/Cameroun borders.
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Nigeria has the largest area of mangrove forest in Africa with an estimate of ___________km2.
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Derive Savanna covers an area of about _________ sq.km about 8% of the country
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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 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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__is the Northern most part of the savanna belt in Nigeria, aside the Sahel in the far northeast.
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s the largest vegetation cover in Nigeria extending over about 50% of the total landmass.
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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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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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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 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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We don't find rain forest for instance in _________
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may be described as the amount of solar radiation falling upon an environment per unit area
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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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defined the environment as the sum total of the condition within which organisms live
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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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Sudan Savanna's mean annual rainfall is between __________mm
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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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In Nigeria the average animal sunshine hours has been reported to be _______ in the south
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Sudan Savanna's mean annual rainfall is between 510 and _mm
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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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Continental shelf measures about _______km off cape Formoso at the nose of the Niger Delta
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We don't find desert encroachment in _________
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Nigeria is located in the _________ of Africa
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Solar radiation is most often measured indirectly by using ___________ .
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___________ may be described as the amount of solar radiation falling upon an environment per unit area
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_______ and ________ are two types of Quaternary
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About ------- million sq km of land have become desertified in the past 50 years.
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In Nigeria the average animal sunshine hours has been reported to be in the south
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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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can be located in the far northeast of Nigeria occupying part of Yola and Maiduguri.
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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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Less than % of the solar constant pass through the atmosphere and arrive at the earth's surface
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Over % of Nigeria's original forest were lost due to unplanned land use.
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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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