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Exam Questions and Answers on Agricultural Science for (JSS1-3) Students
Class: JS2
Subject: Agricultural Science
Instruction: Answer all questions
- One of these is a farm tool (a) hoe (b) pen (c) speedometer
- The trowel consists of a short wooden handle attached to a small curved blade rounded at the base to form a scoop (true or false)
- The following are aims of crop improvement except (a) to decrease yield of crops (b) to improve quality of produce (c) to increase yield of crops
- They are ______ methods adopted by crop breeders for improving their crops (a) three (b) four (c) five
- Disease is any deviation from the normal state of health of an organism (true of false
- One of these is a type of disease organism (a) bacteria (b) polymer (c) pathogens
- Viruses are so tiny that they can only be seen by an electron microscope (true or false)
- ______ is any animals which damages crops of livestock (a) pest (b) mouse (c) rat
- ______ are the most serious pests of cereal and fruit crops (a) birds (b) animals (c) rat
- Insect pests are classified into _______ based on the nature of their mouth parts (a) three (b) five (c) six
- Scare crow is used for scaring birds and monkeys off the farms (true or false)
- There are mainly the _______ that eat up the grains reducing them to power residues
Section B: answer only five questions
- Define pest and state three examples
- Explain pathogens
- Mention four types of disease organisms
- Define the term disease
- What do you understand by the term weed?
- Mention 3 effects of weed on crop plant
- Mention 3 methods of controlling weeds
Class: JS1
Subject: Agricultural Science
Instruction: Answer all questions
- All crops belong to a group of plant called ____ (a) higher plants (b) vegetables (c) fruits
- The organs of plant can be divided into _____ (a) four (b) two (c) three
- Roots systems are of two types namely tap root and fibrous roots system (true or false)
- Distribution of crops refers to the region where each particular crop is mostly adapted in Nigeria (true or false)
- Crops depend mainly on ______ for their water supply (a) rainfall (b) river (c) sea
- Most farm animals belong to the group called ____ (a) mammals (b) vertebrates (c) birds
- Mammals are animals that produce their young ones alive and feed them with milk from the mother animals (true or false)
- Ruminants include ______ (a) sheep (b) fish (c) bird
- In northern Nigeria, cattle is used for ploughing the field (true or false
- In the field of ______ animals are raised for the production of hormones used in curing certain diseases in man (a) engineering (b) medicine (c) fine art
- The grass eaten by livestock is covered to manure when the waste is passed out as dung (true or false)
- Hoe is a basic tool used by most farmers to till the soil (true or false)
Section B
- Crop plants consist of two main parts. Mention them
- State the factors affecting distribution of crops in Nigeria
- What is vertebrate?
- Mention four types of farm animals in Nigeria
- Mention five farm tools that you know
- What do you understand by the term farm structure
- Hoe is used for what?
