Name: ...................................

Date: ...................................
A. Choose the most appropriate option.
1. Agriculture
a.deals with plant diseases.
b.deals with the growth of plants and animals for human use.
c.deals with photosynthesis.
d.deals with the human body.
2. Which of these is not a part of agricultural science?
a.Soil management
b.Crop farming
c.Animal Husbandry
d.Human body
3. Preparation of the soil includes the following.
a.ploughing, leveling and adding manures and fertilizers.
b.ploughing, leveling, sowing and irrigation.
c.sowing, irrigation, adding ferilizers.
d.irrigation, adding manures and weeding.
4. Nursery is where
a.where seeds of some plants are germinated and transplanted.
b.where plants are grown permanently.
c.where grown plants are transplanted.
d.where seeds are preserved.
5. Which one of the following is not part of animal husbandry?
a.rearing cattle for meat and milk production.
b.using animals for work.
c.rearing bees for honey.
d.ploughing of soil
B. Match the following.
Terms
Descriptions
i. Agriculture It is the scattering of seeds over the soil surface by hand.
It is the removal of unwanted plants that grow along with crops / and also
ii. Harvesting
eliminating uneconomical animals.
iii. Threshing The science that deals with growth of plants and animals for human use.
Some stocks of grain are stored to compensate for the shortfall due to failure
iv. Winnowing
of monsoon in a particular year.
v. Broadcasting Cutting and gathering of matured crops.
vi. Weeding
Organisms such rodents, insects that eat or damage the crops.
vii. Buffer
Dropping of the grain mixture slowly into the air for separating the grain
stock
from its chaff.
viii. Pests
Beating out the grain from the chaff
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