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Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1.
How much increase in cultivable land occurred in India from 1952 to 2010?
(a) 20%
(b) 25%
(c) 35%
(d) 40%

Answer

Answer: (b) 25%

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Question 2.
How many nutrients are essential for plants?
(a) 16
(b) 20
(c) 26
(d) 36

Answer

Answer: (a) 16

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Question 3.
Which one of the following species of the honey bee is an Italian species?
(a) Apis cerana indica
(b) Apis dorsata
(c) Apis florae
(d) Apis mellifera

Answer

Answer: (d) Apis mellifera

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Question 4.
How many micronutrients are required by plants?
(a) 6
(b) 10
(c) 7
(d) 12

Answer

Answer: (c) 7

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Question 5.
Which of the following are Indian cattle?
(i) Bos indicus
(ii) Bos domestica
(iii) Bos bubalis
(a) (i) and (iii)
(b) (i) and (ii)
(c) (ii) and (iii)
(d) (iii) and (iv)

Answer

Answer: (a) (i) and (iii)

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Question 6.
The hybrid breed of buffalo yielding maximum milk is:
(a) Jamunapari
(b) Murrah
(c) Sahiwal
(d) Barbary

Answer

Answer: (b) Murrah

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Question 7.
This breed of cow gives more milk:
(a) Bhadawari
(b) Jaffrabadi
(c) Murrah
(d) Sahiwal

Answer

Answer: (d) Sahiwal

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Question 8.
This hybrid breed of the hen has the world record of laying maximum eggs:
(a) White leghorn
(b) Minorca
(c) Karaknath
(d) Vasra

Answer

Answer: (a) White leghorn

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Question 9.
Which goat is known as the queen of milk?
(a) Barbary
(b) Jamunapari
(c) Sannen
(d) Bikaneri

Answer

Answer: (c) Sannen

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Question 10.
Which one of the following nutrients is not available in common fertilizers?
(a) Nitrogen
(b) Phosphorus
(c) Iron
(d) Potassium

Answer

Answer: (c) Iron

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Fill in the Blanks.

Question 11.
Berseem is an important _______ crop.

Answer

Answer: fodder

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Question 12.
Blue revolution is concerned with the increase of ________ production.

Answer

Answer: fish

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Question 13.
_______ wool is obtained from the Kashmiri goat.

Answer

Answer: Pashmina

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Question 14.
_______ are commercially produced plant nutrients.

Answer

Answer: Fertilizers

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Question 15.
Continuous use of fertilizers in an area can _______ soil fertility.

Answer

Answer: reduce

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Question 16.
One way of incorporating desirable characters into crop varieties is by ________

Answer

Answer: hybridisation

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Question 17.
The ________ crops are grown in the rainy season from the month of June to October.

Answer

Answer: Kharif

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Question 18.
Some of the crops are grown in the winter season, from November to April are known as _______ crops.

Answer

Answer: Rabi

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True/False.

Question 19.
Catla fish is a fast-growing fish.

Answer

Answer: True

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Question 20.
Berseem, oats, or sudangrass are raised as food for the livestock.

Answer

Answer: True

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Question 21.
Paddy, soybean, pigeon pea, maize, green gram, and black gram are rabi crops.

Answer

Answer: False

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Question 22.
Wheat, gram, peas, mustard, linseed are Kharif crops.

Answer

Answer: False

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Question 23.
Nutrients are obtained by the plants from air, water, and soil.

Answer

Answer: True

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Question 24.
The bulk of organic matter in manure helps in improving the soil structure.

Answer

Answer: True

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Question 25.
The compost is rich in organic matter and nutrients.

Answer

Answer: True

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Question 26.
The level of vitamins A and K is kept high in the poultry feeds.

Answer

Answer: True

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Question 27.
An Italian bee variety, (Apis mellifera) has also been brought in to increase the yield of honey.

Answer

Answer: True

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Match the Column.

Question 28.

A	B
1. Leaf of Neem and Turmeric	(i) 16
2. Fertilizer	(ii) Xanthium, Parthenium, motha
3. Weeds	(iii) Honey production
4. Total crop nutrient element	(iv) N, P, K element
5. Apis cerana indica	(v) Biopesticides
6. Karaknath	(vi) Poultry breed

Answer

Answer:

A	B
1. Leaf of Neem and Turmeric	(v) Biopesticides
2. Fertilizer	(iv) N, P, K element
3. Weeds	(ii) Xanthium, Parthenium, motha
4. Total crop nutrient element	(i) 16
5. Apis cerana indica	(iii) Honey production
6. Karaknath	(vi) Poultry breed

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Answer in one word/Sentence.

Question 29.
What name is given to the method of growing two or more crops in definite row patterns?

Answer

Answer: Inter-cropping

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Question 30.
What term is given to the growing of different crops on a piece of land in pre-planned succession?

Answer

Answer: Crop rotation

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Question 31.
What is the scientific management of animal livestock called?

Answer

Answer: Animal husbandry

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Question 32.
What is the famous breed of sheep that gives the finest wool?

Answer

Answer: Marino breed of sheep

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Question 33.
By what name is the high growth in the production of milk known as?

Answer

Answer: White revolution

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Question 34.
Amount of which vitamins are kept high in the poultry feeds?

Answer

Answer: Vitamin A and vitamin K

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Question 35.
What the offsprings produced by hybridization are called?

Answer

Answer: Hybrids

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