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EXERCISE
EXERCISE
1. Multiple choice questions.
(a) Birds reared for meat are called as:
(i) Broilers (ii) Poultry (iii) Pigeon (iv) Milch
(b) Cod is a rich source of:
(i) Vitamin-C (ii) Vitamin-D (iii) Vitamin-A (iv) Vitamin-H
(c) Baisakhi is associated with :
(i) Pulses (ii) Kharif crops (iii) Rabi crops (iv) Both (ii) and (iii)
(d) Production of fruits and vegetables deals with:
(i) Horticulture (ii) Pisciculture (iii) Agriculture (iv) Tilling
(e) Separation of chaff from the grains is called:
(i) Winnowing (ii) Threshing (iii) Tilling (iv) Ploughing .
2. Match the columns.
Column A Column B
(a) CAN & NPK (i) Irrigation
(b) Apiculture (ii) Harvesting
(c) Sickles (iii) Honeybees .
(d) Moat (iv) Crop protection
(e) Weeding (v) Chemical fertilizers
3. Fill in the blanks.
(a) _______________ and _______________ are the examples of chemical fertilizers.
(b) _______________ , _______________ and _______________ are the medicinal plants.
(c) Hoe is used for _______________ .
(d) Broadcasting is _______________ .
(e) Transplantation is _______________ .
4. Mark the statements as True /False .
(a) Fish farming or pisciculture is the practice of artificial breeding and rearing of fishes.
(b) Milch animals provide us with meat.
(c) The science dealing with production of food from animals is called agriculture.
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