MID TERM TEST FIRST TERM PRIMARY 5 AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
Subject: AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE Class: BASIC 5
Name: __________________________________ Time: 1 Hour
SECTION A: Objective
Instruction: Answer all questions in this section
- Agriculture has to do with ______ and ______ (a)house and water (b)plants and animals (c)sand ad rock (d)human and spirit
- Soil is formed from the _________ (a) sun (b) rain (c) rock (d) moon
- Agents of soil formation helps to break rocks to form _________ (a) plant (b) root (c)rock (d)soil
- The best soil for planting is ______ (a)loamy soil (b)clay soil (c)sandy soil (d)fire sand
- Manure is made from the remains of plants and animals in heap and allowed to _____ (a)green (b)smell (c)decay (d)spoil
- The materials for making compost are ________ (a) fertilizer (b) water (c) chemical (d)ashes, waste and animal dung
- _______ adds nutrients to the soil (a)compost manure (b)mineral resources (c)chemical (d)food
- Crops are classified into ______ forms (a)3 (b)2 (c)4 (d)5
- Monocotyledon have _______ seed leaf (a)one (b)two (c)three (d)four
- Onions are examples of ______ cotyledon (a)dicotylodon (b)monocotyledon (c)carbohydrate (d)simplus
- Annual crops develop and become ripe in ______ your (a)one (b)two (c)five (d)three
- Biennial crops take _______ years to become ripe (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 2
- Beans are example of _________ crops (a) perennial (b) biennial (c) annual (d) quarter
- What determines the classification of crops according to their life cycle is _______ (a)time of planting (b)length of time (c)shape of the root and leaf (d)time of death
- Biennial crops are the following except _________ (a)yam (b)cassava (c)carrot (d)guava
- If animal crop is associated with on. Perennial crop is _____ (a)one and half (b)long time (c)two (d)one
- Example of a perennial crop is _____ (a)cassava (b)cocoa (c)yam (d)potatoes
- Which of these is a cash crop? (a)Mango (b)soyabean (c)rubber (d)cashew
- ______ animals are animals reared by farmers (a)life (b)farm (c)bushfallow (d)beast
- Animals that have simple stomach are _______ (a)non-ruminant (b)ruminant (c)one belly (d)lion
THEORY
- What is Agricultural Science?
- What is weathering?
- Mention any four agents of soil formation
- State four differences between monocotyledons and dicotyledonous plants
- What are Ruminant animals?
- Give two Examples of ruminant animals
- Mention the four-compartment stomach in ruminant animal.
- Give two examples of non-ruminant animals.
