GEOGRAPHY


LANDFORMS ASSOCIATED WITH VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES

Volcanic activities have a profound influence on the earth's landforms. Solid, liquid or gaseous materials may find their way to the surface from some deep-seated reservoir beneath. Molten magma is ...
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THE INFLUENCE OF ROCK TYPES ON LANDSCAPES

The appearance and characterstic features of landforms are greatly influenced by the underlying rock type. Softer rocks like clay and shale are worn down much faster than harder rocks like ...
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THE CLASSIFICATION OF ROCKS

The earth's crust is made up of various types of rocks, differing from one another in mineral content, texture, structure, colour, permeability, mode of occurrence and degree of resistance to ...
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THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE

A traveller going eastwards gains time from Greenwich until he reaches the meridian 180°E when he will be 12 hours ahead of G.M.T. Similarly in going westwards, he loses 12 ...
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STANDARD TIME AND TIME ZONES

If each town were to keep the time of its own meridian, there would be much difference in local time between one town and the other. At 10.00 a.m. in ...
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POPULATION GROWTH IN AFRICA

The exact population size of Africa, like that of the world, at any particular time is difficult to determine. This is essentially due to the fact that many countries in ...
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DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION IN AFRICA

The population density of Africa is 30 persons per square kilometre. This might be misleading when dealing with a large land mass as Africa, and there is need to remember ...
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URBANISATION IN NIGERIA

Urbanisation is the process by which people move to a place and settle in large numbers to engage in essentially non-primary economic activities. It is a process by which a ...
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POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS

1) Size In studying the population in any country, the first consideration is to determine the size of the population or the total number of people in the country. This ...
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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Population is important both as a factor and as a measure of development in a country. The term, population, is used to embrace the sum total of the human resources ...
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