Official Jamb Geography syllabus and recommended textbooks to read

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Jamb geography syllabus (Human geography)

1. Population

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. define different concepts of population.

ii. identify the characteristics of population (growth rates and structure).

iii. determine the factors and the patterns of population distribution.

iv. identify the factors and problems of population growth.

v. relate the types of migration to their causes and effects.

vi. account for the ways population constitute a resource.

Contents

(a) World population with particular reference to the Amazon Basin, N.E.U.S.A., India, Japan and the West Coast of Southern Africa.

(b) Characteristics – birth and death rates, ages/sex structure.

(c) Factors and patterns of population distribution.

(d) Factors and problems of population growth.

 

2. Selected economic activities

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. identify the types of economic activities.

ii. differentiate between the types of economic activities.

iii. assess Agriculture as an economic activity.

iv. compare the types of manufacturing industries.

v. identify the factors of industrial location.

vi. examine the socio-economic importance of manufacturing industries.

vii. give reasons for the problems of industrialization in tropical Africa.

viii. differentiate between the types and means of transportation and communication.

ix. assess the economic importance of transport.

x. give reasons for the problems of transportation in tropical Africa.

xi. relate the factors to the pattern of world trade.

xii. classify the major commodities of trade in terms of their origins, routes and destination.

xiii. analyse tourism as an economic activity.

Content

(a) Types of economic activities: primary, secondary, tertiary and quartnary.

(b) Agriculture: types, system, factors and problems.

(c) Manufacturing industries, types, locational factors, distribution and socio-economic importance and problems of industrialization in tropical Africa.

(d) Transportation and Communication types, roles in economic development and communication in tropical Africa.

(e) World trade-factors and pattern of world trade, major commodities (origin, routes and destinations).

(f) Tourism: definition, importance, location, problems and solutions.

 

3. SETTLEMENT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO WESTERN EUROPE, THE USA, MIDDLE EAST AND WEST AFRICA

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. differentiate between types of settlements; (rural and urban).

ii. classify the patterns and functions of rural settlements.

iii. classify the patterns and functions of urban settlements.

iv. identify the problems of urban centres.

v. establish the interrelationship between rural and urban settlements.

Content

(a) Types and patterns: rural and urban, dispersed, nucleated and linear.

(b) Rural settlement: classification, factors of growth and functions.

(c) Urban settlement – classification, factors of growth and functions.

(d) Problems of urban centres.

(e) Interrelationship between rural and urban settlements.

 

Jamb geography syllabus (Physical geography)

 

1. Soils

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. classify soils and their properties.

ii. isolate the factors of formation.

iii. differentiate between the different types of soil horizons and their characteristics.

iv. compare the major tropical soil types and uses of soils.

v. account for the distribution and uses of soils.

vi. assess the impact of human activities on soils.

Content

(a) Definition and properties.

(b) Factors and processes of formation.

(c) Soil profiles.

(d) Major tropical types, their characteristics, distribution and uses.

(e) Impact of human activities on soils.

 

2. Denudation processes in the tropics

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. identify the agents of denudation.

ii. associate landforms with each process and agent.

Content

(a) Weathering.

(b) Erosion.

(c) Mass movement.

(d) Deposition.

 

3. Environmental conservation

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. explain with examples environmental conservation.

ii. discuss the different methods of environmental conservation.

iii. explain the need/importance of environmental conservation.

Content is not available

 

4. Environmental hazards

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. identify the natural hazards and their causes.

ii. relate the human-induced hazards to their causes.

iii. locate the major areas where they are common and their effects.

iv. recommend possible methods of prevention and control.

Content

(a) Natural hazards (droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding).

(b) Man-induced (soil erosion, deforestation, pollution, flooding and desertification).

(c) Effects, prevention and control of hazards.

 

5. Environmental interaction

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. identify the components of land ecosystem.

ii. establish the interrelationship within the ecosystem.

iii. interpret the concept of environmental balance.

iv. analyse the effects of human activities on land ecosystem.

Content

(a) Land ecosystem.

(b) Environmental balance and human interaction.

 

6. Environmental resources

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. interpret the concept of environmental resources.

ii. relate environmental resources to their uses.

iii. differentiate between the concepts of renewable and non-renewable resources.

Content

(a) Types of resources (atmospheric, land, soil, Vegetation and minerals).

(b) The concept of renewable and non-renewable resources.

 

7. The earth as a planet

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. identify the relative positions of the planets in the solar system.

ii. relate the effects of the rotation to the revolution of the earth.

iii. provide proof for the shape and size of the earth.

iv. differentiate between latitudes and longitudes.

v. relate lines of latitude to calculation of distance.

vi. relate lines of longitude to calculation of time.

Content

(a) The earth in the solar system, rotation and revolution.

(b) The shape and size of the earth.

(c) Latitudes and distances, longitudes and time.

 

8. The earth crust

Objectives 

Candidates should be able to:

i. compare the internal and external components of the earth.

ii. understand the existing relationship among atmosphere, biosphere in terms of energy balance and water cycle.

iii. differentiate between major types of rocks and their characteristics.

iv. analyse the processes of formation and the resultant features.

v. indicate the uses of rocks.

vi. differentiate between tensional and compressional forces and the resultant landforms.

vii. identify and describe the major landforms.

Content

(a) The structure of the earth (internal and external) relationships among the four spheres.

(b) Rocks: Types, characteristics, modes of formation and uses.

(c) Earth’s movement: Tectonic forces.

(d) Major Landforms: Mountains, Plateaux, Plains, Coastal landforms, karst topography and desert landforms.

 

9. Vegetation

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. trace the factors controlling the growth of plants.

ii. analyse the process of vegetation development.

iii. identify the types, their characteristics and distribution.

iv. assess the impact of human activities on vegetation.

Content

(a) Factors controlling growth of plants.

(b) The concept of vegetation e.g. plant communities and succession.

(c) Major types of vegetation, their characteristics and distribution.

(d) Impact of human activities on vegetation.

 

10. Volcanism and earthquakes

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. explain the processes of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

ii. describe the different landforms associated with both volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

iii. give examples of major volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in the world.

Content

(a) Landforms associated with volcanic activities.

(b) Landforms of Igneous Rocks.

(c) Origin and types of Volcanoes.

(d) Some volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

11.Water bodies

Objectives

 

12. Weather and climate

Objectives

i. differentiate between weather and climate.

ii. differentiate between the elements of weather and climate.

iii. isolate the factors controlling weather and climate.

iv. compare Koppen’s and Greek’s classifications.

v. identify the major types of climate according to Koppen.

vii. relate the weather instruments to their uses.

viii. define climate change.

ix. understand the causes of climate change.

x. understand the effects and remedies of climate change.

Content

(a) Concept of weather and climate.

(b) Elements of weather and climate.

(c) Factors controlling weather and climate (pressure, air mass, altitude, continentality and winds).

(d) Classification of climate (Greek and Koppen).

(e) Major climate types (Koppen), their characteristics and distribution.

(f) Measuring and recording weather parameters and instruments used.

(g) The basic science of climate change.

 

Jamb geography syllabus (Practical geography)

 

1. Elementary surveying

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. analyse the principle and procedure of each technique.

ii. compare the advantages of the two techniques.

Content

(a) Chain and prismatic.

(b) Open and close traverse.

(c) Procedure.

(d) Problems.

(e ) Advantages and disadvantages.

 

2. Geographic information system (GIS)

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. understand GIS and its uses.

ii. understand the computer system of data capturing and analysis.

iii. express locations through the use of latitudes,longitudes, zipcodes etc.

iv. understand land surveying, remote sensing, map digitizing, map scanning as sources of data.

v. explain areas of use: Defense, Agriculture, Rural Development etc.

vi. identify problems with GIS in Nigeria.

Content

(a) Components.

(b) Techniques.

(c) Data.

(d) Sources.

(e) Applications.

 

3. INTERPRETATION OF STATISTICAL DATA, MAPS AND DIAGRAMS

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. compute quantitative information from statistical data, diagrams and maps.

ii. interpret statistical data, diagrams and maps.

Content

(a) Maps and diagrams.

 

4. Map reading and interpretation

Objectives 

Candidates should be able to:

i. illustrate the relief of an area through profile drawing.

ii. interpret physical and human features from topographical maps.

Content

(a) Drawing of cross profiles.

(b) Recognition of intervisibility.

(c) Recognition and description of physical and human features and relationship as depicted on topographical maps.

 

5. Maps

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. define and identify different types and uses of maps.

Content is not available

 

6. Scale and measurement distances

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. apply the different types of scale to distances and area measurement.

ii. apply the knowledge of scale to gradients map reduction and enlargement.

Content

(a) Areas reduction and enlargement.

(b) Directions.

(c) Bearings and gradients with reference to topographical maps.

 

Jamb geographic syllabus (Regional geography)

 

1. Broad outline of nigeria

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. describe the location, size and political divisions of Nigeria.

ii. identify the ethnic groups and their distributions.

iii. relate the components of physical settings to their effects on human activities.

iv. account for the pattern of population distribution.

v. examine the types of migration, their problems and effects.

vi. identify the types of natural resources and their distribution.

vii. indicate their uses and conservation.

Content

(a) Location, position, size, political division (states) and peoples.

(b) Physical settling: geology, relief, landform, climate and drainage, vegetation and soils.

(c) Population: size, distribution, migration, (types, problems and effects).

(d) Natural Resources: types (minerals, soils, Water, vegetation etc) distribution, uses and conservation.

 

2. Economic and human geography

Objective

 

3. ECOWAS

Objectives

Candidates should be able to:

i. state the meaning, purpose and objectives.

ii. identify and locate the member countries.

iii. evaluate the prospects and problems of the organization.

Content

(a) Meaning and objectives.

(b) Member states.

(c) Advantages and benefits.

(d) Disadvantages, problems and solutions.

 

Recommended geography textbooks to read for jamb

Adeleke, B.O. Areola .O. 2002 and Leong, G.C. Certificate Physical and Human Geography for Senior Secondary School (West African Edition), Ibadan: Oxford.

Bradshaw, M. et al (2004) Contemporary World Regional Geography, New York: McGraw Hill

Bunet, R.B and Okunrotifa, P.O.(1999) General Geography in Diagrams for West Africa, China: Longman.

Collins New Secondary Atlas, Macmillan.

Fellman, D. et al (2005) Introduction to Geography (Seventh Edition) New York: McGraw Hill.

Getis, A. et al (2004) Introduction to Geography (Ninth Edition) New York: McGraw Hill
Iloeje, N. P(1999) A New Geography of West Africa, Hong Kong: Longman.

Iloeje, N.P(1982) A New Geography of Nigeria (New Education) , Hong Kong: London.

Nimako, D.A. (2000) Map Reading of West Africa, Essex: Longman.

Okunrotifa, P.O. and Michael S. (2000) A Regional Geography of Africa (New Edition) , Essex: London.

Udo, R.K(1970) Geographical Regions of Nigeria, London: Longman.

Waugh, D. (1995) Geography an Integrated Approach (Second Edition) .

Adegoke M.A (2013), A Comprehensive Text on Physical, Human and Regional Geography.

 

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