SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Thermal energy in liquid is transferred by 5. _______ is a natural event that can lead to
bush burning
A. Conduction
A. Firewood
B. Convection
B. Accidental flames
C. Radiation
C. Thunder and lightening
D. Sublimation
D. Animal rearing
2. Forest conservation include the following
EXCEPT 6. A trait that is hidden in one generation and
manifests in another is an example of
A. Prevention of bush fires
A. Recessive trait
B. Extensive felling of bush trees
B. Dominant trait
C. Replacing of harvested trees by planting
seedlings C. Resemblance

D. Selective exploitation of forest trees D. Family trait

3. Which part of the body is the pinna 7. Which of these is NOT an eye defect?
located?
A. Hypermetropia
A. Head
B. Myopia
B. Ear
C. Presbyopia
C. Mouth
D. Astigmation
D. Neck
8. Which of the following is not a stimulus?
4. Cochlea nerve is found in the
A. Light
A. Ear
B. Charge
B. Eye
C. Touch
C. Skin
D. Sound
D. Mouth
9. In the normal eye, the image is formed on
the
 A. Sclera D. Tympanic membrane

B. Choroid 14. Which of these traits is most dependent on

heredity?
C. Retina
A. Night blindness
D. Cornea
B. Musculature
10. The ozone layer is important to man
because it C. Colour of eye

A. Absorbs ultraviolet rays D. Speech fluency

B. Reduces diseases
Study the diagram below and use it to answer
C. Produces rain questions 31 and 32

D. Makes the sun shine brighter

11. One of the social practices influencing bush

burning is

A. Charcoal making
Light rays
B. Farming

C. Hunting 15. What type of eye defect is represented

above?
D. Poverty
A. Stigmatism
12. Long sightedness can be corrected by the
use of ______ lens B. Long sight

A. Concave C. Colour blindness

B. Convex D. Short sight

C. Cylindrical 16. The above eye defect can be corrected by

the use of a ________ lens
D. Spherical
A. Concave
13. The part of the ear responsible for balance
is called? B. Convex

A. Eardrum C. Plain

B. Pinna D. Flat

C. Semi-circular canal
17. The molecules which governs the B. UV radiation helps in the formation of
characteristics transmitted from parent to ozone layer
child is called the
C. CFC are major cause of ozone depletion
A. Allele
D. Depletion of ozone layer can lead to
B. Chromosome more cancer cases

C. Gene 22. Which of this is NOT an example of

environmental hazard?
D. Genotype
A. Desertification
18. _________ is the transferring of genes from
parents to offsprings B. Afforestation

A. Genetic C. Bush burning

B. Heredity D. Erosion

C. Genetics 23. Which of the scientists can be described as

the father of genetics, who worked on
D. Puberty heredity?
19. Traits usually inherited from parents or A. Robert Hooke
grandparents include the following EXCEPT
B. John Dalton
A. Eye colour
C. Gregor Mendel
B. Shape of body
D. Theodore Schwann
C. Skin colour
24. Constructing good drainage systems may
D. Tribal marks help prevent one of the following:
20. These characteristics can run in the family A. Erosion
tree EXCEPT
B. Flooding
A. Baldness
C. Blocked gutters
B. Kwashiorkor
D. Overflowing of rivers or seas
C. Brown eyes
25. Flooding could result from the following
D. Fatness EXCEPT
21. Which of the following is not true? A. Sandy soil
A. The Ozone layer is located in the earth B. Heavy rainfall
stratosphere
 C. Blocked gutter 30. Thermal energy is an example of

D. Overflowing of rivers or seas A. Kinetic energy

26. The breaking down of the Earth's rock is B. Potential energy

known as
C. Muscular energy
A. Soil erosion
D. Momentary energy
B. Water erosion
31. The faster the body moves, the higher the
C. Wind erosion thermal energy.

D. Weathering A. True

27. Effects of deforestation include the B. False

following EXCEPT
C. In rare cases
A. Breaking the water cycle
D. I'm not sure
B. Climatic changes
32. _________ of particles results in the rise of
C. Erosion thermal energy

D. Flooding and drought A. Direction

E. Manufacture of timber B. Vibration

28. The northern part of Nigeria is prone to C. Shape

desertification because
D. Size
A. It has lots of trees
33. Thermal energy transfer can occur through
B. It has plenty of grasses _______ ways

C. It's close to Sahara A. 2

D. The land is sometimes wet B. 1

29. There are primarily ______ different types C. 3

of taste sensations
D. 0
A. 3
34. Thermal energy is inversely proportional to
B. 4 Temperature.

C. 6 A. True

D. 2 B. False
 C. In rainy season (i) Increase in atmospheric temperature

D. In dry season (ii) Increase in level of CO2 in the

atmosphere
35. Heat transferred through a fluid in a circular
motion is called (iii) Increase in ground water level

A. Radiation (iv) Increases chances of natural calamities

such as floods and drought
B. Temperature
A. Options (i), (ii) and (iii)
C. Convection
B. Options (ii) and (iii)
D. Conduction
C. Options (i), (ii) and (iv)
36. The transfer of energy by electromagnetic
waves is called D. Options (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

A. Convection 40. The loss of fertile topsoil due to heavy rain

and wind is called?
B. Conduction
A. Afforestation
C. Temperature
B. Deforestation
D. Radiation
C. Weathering
37. A material that easily transfers heat is
called D. Soil erosion

A. Insulator 41. Which factor is not responsible for the

spread of Desertification?
B. Convector
A. Soil erosion
C. Conductor
B. Nomadic people
D. Radiator
C. Wind erosion
38. Which is not an example of an insulator?
D. Conservation of water
A. Cotton
42. Who is not affected by Desertification?
B. Aluminum foil
A. Farmers
C. Cardboard
B. Politicians and lobbyists
D. Rug
C. Indigenous people
39. Which of the following is/are
consequence(s) of deforestation.
 D. All these groups of people are affected D. Heat
by desertification
47. The handle of a pot is covered with wood.
43. What is Desertification? Which type of heat transfer does the wood
reduce?
A. The degradation of Land so it can no
longer support human life A. Convection

B. A city in Arizona B. Radiation

C. The process of becoming desert (as from C. Potential energy

land management or climate change)
D. Conduction
D. New legislation some politicians are
proposing 48. Which of the following is an environmental
consequence of floods?
44. Which of the following statements about
bush burning is false? A. Dispersal of weed species

A. It releases mineral nutrients bound in B. Erosion of soil

plant tissues C. Release of pollutants into water ways
B. It encourages the growth of fresh grasses D. All of the above
C. The heat generated destroys pests 49. In the future, which of the following is
D. The heat generated increases the expected to increase the risk of flooding?
population of soil organisms A. Population growth
45. Which is an example of convection? B. Urbanization
A. Fiberglass insulation C. Climate change
B. Heat on your skin from the sun D. All of the above
C. Soup heating a metal spoon 50. Hereditary variation arises because
D. Heat from baseboard heaters filling the A. No two off springs inherit exactly the
room same set of characters from their parents
46. The energy that an object has due to the B. Each offspring inherits a different
motion of its particles is called combination of characters from parents
A. Thermal energy C. All of the above
B. Kinetic energy D. None of the above
C. Potential energy 51. The basic unit of inheritance is
 A. Traits B. Convection

B. Gametes C. Radiation

C. Gene D. Conduction.

D. Chromosomes 56. In liquids and gases, heat transmission is

primarily caused by
52. The following are transmittable characters
in humans EXCEPT A. Convection

A. Colour of teeth B. Radiation

B. Blood grouping C. Conduction

C. Tongue rolling D. Conduction as well as convection

D. Fingerprints 57. Cutting of trees on a large scale is called?

53. Why is ozone within the upper A. Afforestation

environment important?
B. Forest fire
A. Because it provides rain to the earth
C. Deforestation
B. It protects the earth from the sun’s
harmful ultraviolet radiations D. None of the above

C. It provides good aesthetic view to the 58. What type of farming causes more
atmosphere deforestation?

D. It protects the earth from floods A. Subsistence agriculture

54. Which one of the following is a result of B. Commercial agriculture

ozone layer depletion? C. Mixed farming
A. Increase in the oxygen level D. Dairy farming
B. Increase in the nitrogen level 59. Deforestation causes increase in
C. Increase in the phosphorous level temperatures and generally causes a drier
climate.
D. Increases in the carbon dioxide level
A. False
55. Heat is transferred from one particle of
matter to another without the movement B. Only in asian countries
of the matter itself is called C. Not certain
A. Temperature D. True
60. An organism's physical appearance is it's B. More often
phenotype.
C. True
A. False
D. In asian population

SECTION B: ESSAY
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer 4 questions from this section. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Briefly discuss the effects of the depletion of the ozone layer.

2. With appropriate examples, discuss the methods of heat transfer.

3. (a) What are family traits?

(b) State four causes of soil erosion.

(c) State four human practices that can lead to desertification.

4. Enumerate five ways deforestation can be controlled.

5. (a) Define temperature.

(b) What do you understand by conductive heat flow?

(c) Briefly explain how forest conservation is a way of controlling global warming.

6. (a) Mention and briefly explain the types of erosion.

(b) State two applications of each of the following:

i) Conduction

ii) Radiation