First Term Examination
Class : JSS 2
Subject : Agricultural Science
Duration : 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Instruction : Attempt All Questions.
Section A : Objective Questions
1. Which of these can be used in building farm structure? (a) Wood (b) Concrete (c) Mud and Roofed grasses (d) All of the above
2. ________ is not an example of production structure. (a) Fish pond (b) Shelter (c) Poultry Battery cage (d) Hutches
3. Barns, rhombus and cold store are example of ________ structure. (a) Utility (b) Storage (c) Processing (d) Production
4. Living house for the farmer and workers, farm office, ethics are types of _______________. (a) Farm structure (b) Farm building (c) Farm tools (d) None of the above
5. Utility structure include _________. (a) Well (b) Irrigation canal (c) Drainage canal (d) All of the above
6. ________ is considered to be the skin of the earth. (a) Flesh (b) Soil (c) Rock (d) None of the above
7. _________ involves the production of fish. (a) Forestry (b) Fishery (c) Apiculture (d) Fish net
8. Farm water supply could come from _______. (a) tap (b) well (c) irrigation (d) all of the above
9. _________ is the process of making ridges. (a) Piling (b) Ridging (c) Ploughing (d) Harrowing
10. All these are farm structure except ________. (a) Farm Structure (b) Barn (c) Farm House (d) Rhombus
11. _________ means the distance between two plants. (a) Length (b) Perimeter (c) Spacing (d) Seed rate
12. _____________ is not a planting operation. (a) Burning (b) Spacing (c) Seed selection (d) Seed rate
13. Always avoid seeds which have been stored for a long time S some of them must have lost their viability. (a) True (b) False (c) Not sure (d) Undecided
14. Livestock pens and houses should be sited close to farm offices and living houses to avoid offensive odour. (a) True (b) False (c) Undecided (d) Not sure
15. Which of these is not a farm implement? (a) Planner (b) Planter (c) Plough (d) Harrow.
16. Which of these operation comes after farm layout? (a) Selection of site (b) Stumping (c) Ploughing (d) Harrowing
17. ________ is the medium in which plant grow. (a) Leaf (b) Water (c) Soil (d) Cloud
18. ________ is the quantity of seeds or planting materials required to cover the planting of an area of land. (a) Mapping (b) Seedling (c) Seed rate (d) Seed selection
19. Which of these is not a cropping system? (a) Mixed farming (b) Mono cropping (c) Mixed cropping (d) Lay farming
20. The different pattern of cultivation used by farmers is called _________. (a) Farming (b) Animal rearing (c) Agriculture system (d) Nomadism
21. Which of these is not a farming system? (a) Crop rotation (b) Bush fallowing (c) Land rotation (d) Shifting cultivation
22. Post-planting operations are carried out ________ planting. (a) before (b) after (c) during (d) None of the above
23. _________ refers to the shape and position of farm land. (a) Tolography (b) soil fertility (c) staking (d) Thinning and supplying
Fill in the gaps from the list of word given below: (Mulching, Weeding, Supplying, Storing, Harvesting, Thinning, staking)
24. _________ is the removal of weak or extra seedling from a stand when the seedling per stand germinate more than required.
25. _________is the replanting of crops into vacant spaces.
26. ________ is the process by which non-living materials such as dry grasses, leaves, etc are laid on the surface of the soil to prevent loss.
27. __________ is the process of removing unwanted plants found growing among cultivated crops.
28. _________ is the process of keeping harvested crops for spoilage or future use.
29. _________ is the process of removing or detaching matured crops.
30. _________ is the erecting of pole or stick to support twining or creeping crops to raise their stem from the ground.
Section B : Theory
Instruction: Attempt any three (3) questions.
1a. What is farm structure?
1b. List four examples of farm structures
2a. Define cultural practices
2b. List the three classes of cultural practices
2c. Give three examples of each class of the cultural practices.
3a. What is mixed farming?
3b. Mention two principles of crop rotation
3c. List three type of cropping system.
4a. Explain the term, “wounding method” of fish
4b. Give four types of bad fishing methods
4c. Give two examples of bony fishes.