SUBJECT: AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

SECTION A: Objectives A. cutting trees.

Instruction: Choose the correct answer by B. digging holes and lifting soil.
circling. C. cooking harvested farm produce.
D. carrying harvested farm produce.
1. The instrument used by fish farmers and
fishermen to harvest or catch fish in the ponds, 9. Blunt tools should be sharpened by rubbing the
lakes, rivers and seas when they mature is called blunt cutting edges against what?
A. pole and hook. A. Cloth.
B. bait. B. A file or stone.
C. fishing tools. C. A piece of wood.
D. net. D. Water.

2. The tools used in the farm for the cultivation of 10. A garden fork has four large teeth called:
crops and rearing of animals is called A. prongs.
A. farm tools. B. teeth.
B. tools. C. fibres.
C. machines. D. cutlass.
D. electronics. 11. A cutlass consists of what?
3. The place in which crops are grown and animals A. Only a blade.
are raised is called B. A blade and a wooden handle.
A. land. C. Two blades.
B. surface area. D. A wooden blade.
C. soil. 12. Sexual propagation is?
D. rock. A. Propagation by means of seed
B. Propagation by means of cuttings
4. Which of these option is a special structures C. Propagation by means of leaves
constructed for slaughtering and butchering of D. Propagation by means of roots
animals?
A. abattoir.
B. silos.
C. vet clinic.
D. barn.
5. The removal of unwanted plants from the farm is
called
A. Removal. 13. Identify the image above:
B. Cutting. A. a scissors.
C. Weeding. B. a secateurs.
D. Weed. C. a shear.
D. a digging tool.
6. The grass harvested dried and stored during the
rainy season for the feeding of ruminants is
known as
A. sow.
B. pasture.
C. hay.
D. concentrate.
14. One method through which the
7. Which option is not a protein yieldingYEAR
CLASS: feed? 8 above tool can be maintained is
A. Cotton seed cake. A. sunning.
B. Palm kernel cake. B. wrapping.
C. Egg shell. C. greasing.
D. Rice. D. painting.
8. Spades and shovels are used for
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animals is referred to as
A. hostage.
B. parasite.
C. pathogen.
D. pesticide.
15. The figure displayed 22. One of the commonest endo-parasite found in pig
above can be used for : is called
A. boiling water for family A. tick.
use. B. lice.
B. watering farm plants. C. mite.
C. kettle molding. D. tapeworm.
D. a water drinker.
23. A disease vector refers to
A. disease carrying organism.
B. another name for pathogen.
C. disease organism.
D. carrier of disease causing organism.
24. The following methods are preventive measures
16. This fishing tool falls under which category? of disease infestation except
A. Baskets. A. use of resistant breed.
B. Fishing nets. B. quarantine.
C. Fishing canoes.
C. eradication.
D. Fishing spears.
D. vaccination.
17. Which one of these products is stored in silos?
24. Any organism that depends on another organism
A. Weeds.
for food and shelter is known as a
B. Yams.
C. Cowpeas. A. pathogen.
D. Cattles. B. parasite.
C. pest.
18. Another name for fishing spear is?
D. predator.
A. Fishing cage.
B. Fishing net. 25. Trypanosomiasis is a cattle disease that is
C. Harpoon. transmitted by
D. Cutlass A. tick.
19. The disease of cattle that can be transmitted to B. mosquito.
man is C. tsetse fly.
A. Brucellosis. D. flea.
B. Anthrax.
C. Rinderpest.
D. Foot and mouth.
26. Coccidiosis is NOT a common disease of
20. Which of these crops is propagated vegetatively A. goats.
A. Cassava. B. cattle.
B. Cowpea. C. poultry birds.
C. Oil palm. D. weed.
D. Rice.

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27. All of the following are important fishing tools 35. Which of the following materials is not allowed in
except harvesting of fish?
A. net. A. Baskets.
B. baskets. B. Traps.
C. hook. C. Nets.
D. sickle. D. Chemicals.
28. Which of the following crops is propagated by 36. The organ for respiration in fish is called
rhizome? A. gills
A. Yam. B. lateral lines.
B. Ginger. C. scales.
C. Tomato. D. anal fin.
D. Potato.
37. Which of the following belongs to aquatic
29. Plantain is an example of plant that propagate by
A. bulb. habitats?
B. sucker. A. Goat.
C. tuber. B. Oyster.
D. stem. C. Horse.
30. A farm tool used for harvesting heads of rice is D. Rabbit.
the 38. The following are obtained from forest trees
A. shear. except
B. rake. A. Charcoals
C. sickle. B. Pulp
D. hand fork. C. Gums
31. Which of the following is not an animal disease? D. Wool
A. Coccidiosis. 39. The vegetation zone in Nigeria that is
B. New castle. characterized by a mixture of grasses and scattered
C. Damping off. tees is the
D. Mastitis. A. Guinea Savanna.
32. Diarrhea stained with blood is a symptom of B. Mangrove.
A. Trypanomiasis C. Rain forest.
B. coccidiosis. D. Sudan Savanna.
C. brucellosis. 40. The practice of cutting only matured forest trees
D. aspergillosis. and allowing other young ones to grow is known as
33. Which method of preservation involves the A. Afforestation.
application of salt to a food substance to reduce B. Regeneration.
microbial growth C. Reforestation.
D. Deforestation.
A. Canning.
41. The area of area of land where fruit trees are
B. Salting.
grown is commonly called a/an
C. Pasteurization. A. plantation.
D. Smoking. B. nursery.
34. Which of the following are the cheapest methods C. orchard.
of preserving fish? D. green house.
A. Salting and sun drying. 42. From the options below identify the animal which
B. Freezing chilling. is NOT a ruminant.
C. Smoking and canning. A. cattle
D. Salting and freezing. B. sheep.
C. Dog.
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43. A farm machine which carries other farm
implement is called
SECTION B: SUBJECTIVE
A. harrow.
B. tractor.
INSTRUCTION: Answer all the questions. (30
C. bulldozer.
marks)
D. harvester.
44. Which one of the following crops cannot be 1. Fill in the gaps with the correct answers. (1mark
propagated vegetatively for each question)
A. yam. Fishes are able to live very well in water because they
B. onion. have developed special adaptive features which helps
C. cassava. them to live successfully in aquatic environments.
D. cowpea. Some of the most important factors which enable fish
45. The establishment of forest in areas where there to live in water are:
are never been any before is called
A. plantain. i. The possession of
B. afforestation. _________________________________________________________
C. plantation.
D. deforestation. ii. The possession of
46. The following are methods of preserving fish _________________________________________________________
except
A. canning. iii. The possession of
B. smoking. _________________________________________________________
C. salting.
D. scaling. iv. The possession of
47. Trypanomiasis is a cattle disease also known as _________________________________________________________
A. Typhoid. v. Fishing is
B. Sleeping sickness. _____________________________________________________________
C. Rat sickness. _____________________________________________________________
D. Cattle fever . _________________________________________________

48. The following are ecto-parasites except

A. Flea.
B. Louse.
C. Liver fluke.
D. Tick.

49. A cattle disease that causes abortion and sterility

is known as
A. brucellosis.
B. Coccidiosis.
C. Foot and mouth. b. State three uses of the farm tool above.
D. Rinderpest. _____________________________________________________________
50. Swine fever is a disease that mainly affects _____________________________________________________________
A. cattle. _________________________________________________
B. Dogs.
C. Goats. c. Identify two ways to maintain this farm tool.
D. Pigs.
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(a) Identify the food crop above and discuss four uses _____________________________________________________________
of this crop to industries and man. (5 marks) _____________________________________________________________
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b. Identify the type propagation represented in the

above picture. (2marks) (c) Outline four basic things to consider in planting
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c. Highlight three advantages of this type of
propagation. (3 marks) _____________________________________________________________
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4.
(a) Draw and label a fish (5marks)

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3.
(a) Mr. Okoro, an uneducated farmer, has been asked
to practice In-situ and Nursery methods of seed
sowing to enable him gain good yield of all seeds in (b) State the functions of five labelled parts.
his possession. Unfortunately, Mr. Okoro does not (5marks)
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understand what he has been asked to do. As a good
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agricultural student, how can you help Mr. Okoro
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understand the In-situ and Nursery seed sowing _____________________________________________________
practice by differentiating them?
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_____________________________________________________________ (a) Define the following (3 marks)
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II. Parasite
III. Disease
SECTION C: THEORY

INSTRUCTION: Answer any four (4) questions: _____________________________________________________________

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(a) Define Mulching. (2 marks).
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(b). Mrs. Johnson, after listening to the “benefits of _____________________
mulching” on a radio station, decided to put all she
has heard into practice: state three of such benefits (b) List four disease-causing organisms (2marks)
she must have heard on radio. (3 marks) _____________________________________________________________
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2 by sick farm animals (2marks)
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(b). List six important forest trees (3marks)
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5.

(a) Explain ecto parasites and list five examples of

ecto parasites. (2.5marks).

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(b). Explain endo parasites and list five places where

endo parasites can be found. (2.5marks).

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