Vegetation and Soils
GCE Geography
11 Vegetation and Soils practice questions covering everything you need for GCE.
Drill Vegetation and Soils →Sample Vegetation and Soils questions
Study the diagram of a soil profile below and answer the questions that follow. (a) Identify and describe the characteristics of the horizons labelled I, II, and III in a typical mature soil profile. …
(a) With reference to West Africa, describe FOUR characteristics of the tropical rainforest vegetation. (8 marks) (b) Explain how the tropical rainforest vegetation influences the soils found beneath …
Which of the following vegetation zones is found immediately south of the Sahara Desert in West Africa?
The type of soil formed under conditions of heavy rainfall and high temperature through the process of laterisation is called
In Nigeria, the mangrove swamp forest is predominantly found in
Which of the following best describes the process of leaching in soil formation?
The vegetation of the tropical rainforest is characterised by all of the following EXCEPT
A soil sample has a bulk density of $1.5 \ \text{g/cm}^3$ and a particle density of $2.5 \ \text{g/cm}^3$. What is the percentage porosity of the soil?
Which of the following soil properties most directly determines the water-holding capacity of a soil?
The replacement of the original tropical rainforest by secondary vegetation following human activities such as farming and logging is referred to as
Zonal soils differ from azonal soils primarily because zonal soils