Class 8 – Science – Crop Production and Management- Assignment Sheet

Q 1 Why storage of food is done? (1)

Q 2 Write any two sources of irrigation? (1)
Q 3 What are the two common forms by which we add nutrients in soil? (1)
Q 4 What do you mean by seed drill? (1)
Q 5 What is sowing? (1)
Q 6 Why we use tractor driven cultivator for ploughing now a days? (1)
Q 7 How are disease transmitted in plants? (1)
Q 8 Name two common examples of agricultural crops. (1)
Q 9 Define agriculture? (1)
Q 10 What is a crop? (1)
Q 11 What do you understand by harvesting and threshing? (2)
Q 12 What is weeding and why is it a necessary process? (2)
Q 13 What is horticulture? (2)
Q 14 Differentiate between plough and hoe? (2)
Q 15 What do you mean by agricultural practices? (2)
Q 16 What do fisheries include? (2)
Q 17 What is winnowing? (2)
Q 18 What is field fallow? (2)
Q 19 What are Kharif season crops? Give examples. (2)
Q 20 What are Rabi season crops? Give examples. (2)
Q 21 What do you understand by the term preparation of soil? (3)
Q 22 What do you mean by animal husbandry and what it‟s use? (3)
Q 23 What are the various safety measures use for store the grain for longer time? (3)
Q 24 What do you understand by weeds. And what are the different methods use by the farmers to remove
weeds? (3)
Q 25 What are the various activities come under agricultural practices? (3)
Q 26 What are the traditional tools we used for sowing the seeds? (3)
Q 27 How is tilling or ploughing are useful in agriculture? (3)
Q 28 Why is it necessary to sow seeds at an appropriate depth and distance? (3)
Q 29 Define irrigation and also mention the traditional and modern methods use for irrigation? (5)
Q 30 How can we say that manure is better than fertilizers? (5)
Q 31 Differentiate between fertilizers and manures. (5)
Q 32 What are the different measures which help to increase crop yield? (5)
Q33: List some (at least three) more common crop plants
Cereals:
Pulses:
Vegetables:
Fruits:
Oil seeds:
Sugar yielding crops:

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